Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Funk

This is an equity suit in two counts. The first count is a suit to try and determine title to an undivided one-sixth interest in a tract of approximately 134 acres of land in Jefferson County. The second count seeks a partition of the land. The issue of title on the first count is between plaintiff and defendant Katherine Funk, the title and ownership of the other five-sixth interest in the land not being in dispute. Defendant Katherine Funk alone answered. The cause went on a change of venue to the Circuit Court of Franklin County and the trial chancellor found the issues for defendant…