Roney v. Dyer

This suit involves a determination of the nature and extent of the interest of the respective group of parties in two tracts of land in Obion County, of which W. F. Parker, deceased, died seized and possessed. Parker died intestate without issue, never having been married. The controversy is between the children and grandchildren of his two half sisters of the maternal line upon the one hand, and the children and grandchildren of his sister of the whole blood, Martha Parker Dyer, upon the other. The former are the complainants and the latter the defendants.

Both tracts of land were originally…