Roach v. Clark

The appellee instituted this preceeding, by petition, for a writ of assistance to place him in possession of an eighty acre tract of land alleged to have been purchased by him at a sale by an administrator upon an order of the court below. Thomas W. Roach, responding to the petition, alleged that the decedent, who died the owner in fee simple of said real estate, left him surviving as her widower; that she left no debts contracted before her marriage to him; that he became and continued the owner in fee of one-third of said lands undivided and as tenant in common with other heirs of the…