Mason v. Wingate

Defendants in error, as complainants in the court below, filed their bill for the partition of eighty acres of land in Hardin county. The bill also prayed that a certain tax deed be set aside as a fraud upon the rights of complainants and declared to be null and void. A decree was entered in accordance with the prayer of the bill for partition and setting aside the tax deed, to review which this writ of error is sued out.

The land described in the bill (eighty acres) belonged to James Cullison in his lifetime and was occupied by him and his family as a home. Cullison died intestate in June,…