Lee v. . Montague

This is an action to recover the value of an alleged shortage of 81 acres of land in a voluntary partition between the plaintiff and the defendant as tenants in common, tried on the following agreed statement facts:

The mother of the plaintiff and the feme defendant owned the land at the time of her death. She devised it to the plaintiff and the feme defendant, to be equally divided between them. In 1907, December 18th, the plaintiff executed a deed to the feme defendant, and the feme defendant and her husband executed to the plaintiff a deed, each deed purporting to sever the unity of…