Payne v. Payne

In a decree dismissing a bill for partition the Chancellor made the following rulings:

“This cause came on for final hearing upon the pleadings and the master’s report of the evidence submitted and taken before him and was argued by counsel for the respective parties.

“This is a suit for the partition of certain real estate owned by one Tobias Payne, a negro who died intestate, leaving him surviving one son, the defendant, Charles H. Payne, and, as complainants allege, two grand-children, the said complainants, the children of one Fenton Payne, who complainants contend, was the son of Tobias…