Rea v. Fornan

Geiger,, J.

The plaintiff below began an action in partition, alleging that he is seized in fee simple of an undivided l/90th of 17 separate tracts of real estate, having inherited the same from the deceased half brother of the plaintiff’s decedent. It is alleged that plaintiff’s decedent died leaving surviving bim certain nieces and nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews as his only heirs and next of kin, whom the petition enumerates in six separate groups. It is alleged that since May 12, 1937 (the date of the death of the decedent, Maurice Patrick Murnan), Grace D. Backenstoe, who claims an…