Speer v. Shipley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This action was brought by four of six children against the other two children of the same family, praying for partition of the three pieces of real estate which their parents owned at the time of their decease, and for rent from Thomas, one of the brothers, who occupied one of the three tracts, called the third tract, from the time of the death of his mother. Later an amended petition was filed; then an answer was filed by Thomas and his sister, and a reply was filed by the plaintiffs in the form of a general denial. Further details as…