Grimes v. Wilson

Wilson Grimes, an infant, by his next friénd and guardian, and Charles Grimes, filed a bill in chancery against Allen Wilson and Henrietta his wife.

The bill states that Noble Grimes, the father of the complainants, died intestate, seised and possessed of “ all that messuage or mansion-house, land, tenements, and hereditaments, known” as two certain half-quarter sections of land, (describing them,) leaving the complainants and seven other children, (naming them,) his next of kin and heirs at law, to whom the premises descended, subject to the right of dower of his widow Henrietta Grimes; that…