Gore v. Stevens

Judge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Stevens and his wife filed their bill, to have partition of a thousand acres of land, among the devisees of John Gore, senior, according to the provisions of his will.

With the decree of the court, all the parties, except Benjamin Gore, the appellant, seein to be satisfied. He claims more land than the court has decreed to him, under the following facts.. It seems that the testator was the patentee of one thousand acres of land, situated in the county of Montgomery. As early as 1797, the appellant removed from Virginia, — where his father, the…