Fields v. Stamper

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

— Reversing.

The appellee, Lincoln Stamper, filed this action in the Carter circuit court against J. S. Garvin, W. J. Fields, and others, alleging that, as devisee of his father, William Stamper, he was the owner of an undivided three-fourths interest in sixty acres of land in Carter county, subject to the life estate of his mother, Cynthia Stamper, in and to two-fourths thereof, and that the remaining one-fourth was owned jointly by W. J. Fields, George Ervin and Willie Ervin. He prayed that the land be divided among these alleged owners, according *324to their…