Hayes v. Gordon

Ed. P. McFaddiN, Justice.

This is a dispute between the children of 0. C. Hayes, deceased. Appellants are the two children of 0. 0. Hayes1 by his first wife, Mrs. Nancy Hayes. Appellees are the three children of 0. C. Hayes by his second wife, Mrs. Dasser Hayes.

Appellants, as plaintiffs in seeking partition, alleged that 0. C. Hayes died intestate, the owner of a tract of 61% acres in Union County, Arkansas; and that appel-lees and appellants each owned one-fifth of said land. Appellees, as defendants, claimed that the tract of 61% acres was not owned by 0. C. Hayes at the time of his death,…