Jones v. Rutledge

[1] By their bill in this cause, filed in 1913, appellees claimed the right to a sale for partition on the ground that they, as grandchildren, and appellants, as children, had inherited the property in controversy from Anderson G. Jones, deceased. The parties were so related to their common ancestor; but that ancestor died in 1883, and upon considering the evidence with due care our opinion is that for more than 20, probably for nearly as long as 30 years, defendants and those under whom in xiart they claim, and others claiming in privity with them as their agents, have been continuously in…