Legal Opinion

DeMoss v. Newton

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1869PublishedCited by 19 opinions

APPEAL from the Wayne Common Pleas. Suit by tlie appellants against the appellees for partition of lands.

1Opinion of the CourtRay, J.

The appellants claim title to an undivided interest in certain real estate, as brothers and sisters, and therefore heirs, of Eathan Clark, who died -in October, 1854, leaving no father, mother, or children surviving, but leaving a widow who took possession of the entire property.

The claim of the appellants rests upon the third section of the act of March 4th, 1853, amending sections 18, 24, 25, and 26, of the “act regulating descents and the apportionment of estates.” Acts 1853, p 55.

The appellees answered, that more than ninety days had elapsed since the 9th day of March, 1867, when the act…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Satterlee v. MatthewsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
  2. M'iver, Lessees v. RaganSupreme Court of the United States · 1817
  3. Foster v. President of the Essex BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1819
  4. Call v. HaggerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1812
  5. Bucklin v. FordNew York Supreme Court · 1849

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Madden v. Lancaster CountyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1894
  2. Wright-Bachman, Inc. v. HODNETTIndiana Supreme Court · 1956
  3. Longlois v. LongloisIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
  4. Waugh v. RileyIndiana Supreme Court · 1879
  5. Lindsay v. LindsayIndiana Supreme Court · 1874

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