Carter v. Becker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

In his lifetime John Cunningham was the owner of a tract of land in Shawnee county. When he died he was a widower, and he left no will. His heirs at law were his married sons, John W. and Christopher, and his daughter, Martha, married to Mitchell West. These children entered into an amicable arrangement for a division of the land their father had left them, and for the purpose of consummating such arrangement they met, according to' a previous *526appointment, at the office of an attorney at law in the city of Topeka and exchanged deeds which he…