Henderson v. Tipton

The bill in this cause was filed March 27, 1886, against M. M. Tipton, as executor and one of the devisees of the will of John B. Tipton, and against twenty-five or thirty other defendants, co-devisees, children, and heirs of children of John B. Tipton. These defendants were in different counties and different States, many of them minors and married women.

The object of the bill was to recover of them certain described lands, or proceeds arising from a sale thereof, made by Defendant M.- M. Tipton as executor, and of which lands John B. Tipton died the legal owner, March 20, 1873, having been…