Saylor v. Hilton

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Hurt

Reversing.

J. I. Hilton was the owner of a tract of land, containing about one hundred and eighty acres in Garrard county, when he died, the appellee, Nancy Hilton, his widow, surviving him. He left no children surviving him, but he left surviving him certain brothers and sisters, and had other brothers and sisters who were dead, and who left children surviving them. The appellant, Granville Saylor, became the owner, by purchase, of the interests of several of these collateral heirs in the tract of land. He claims by his pleadings to be the owner of…