Deavers v. Deavers

This is a partition suit wherein the Chancellor, sitting without a jury, found that complainant had no interest in the property described in the bill and dismissed the suit; and Complainant has appealed.

Complainant is the grandson of B. 0. Deavers and wife, Kate Jane Deavers, who had seven children of whom six survive but the seventh, the father of complainant, is deceased. As the sole child of one of the seven children, complainant claims a one-seventh interest in the lands owned by Kate Jane Deavers at her death.

*707It is insisted by defendants that complainant inherited no property from Kate…