Hatcher v. Pruitt

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Appellant, Walter Hatcher, as plaintiff in the trial court, sought a sale for the purpose of partition of a tract of land on Abbott’s creek, known as the William Bayes land. The defendants were thte devisees under a will made by his grandmother, Elizabeth Jane 'Worsham Elliott.

Walter Hatcher claims to be the owner of seventy-one eightieths of this land. By his petition, Thomas Wilson Elliott, the relict and devisee of Elizabeth Jane Worsham Elliott, was permitted to make himself a party. He asserted in himself the ownership of a life estate…