James v. James
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Suit by J. D. James and others against Daniel James and others. From the decree the defendant named appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge :
In a suit to partition the lands of Davis James, deceased, the only controversy between partitioners related to a tract of one hundred and four and one half acres, situated in Kanawha County. The question was whether this tract constituted a part of decedent’s estate, or was the individual property of the defendant Daniel James,- as he claimed.
By the decree appealed from the court below adjudged this *231tract to be a part of the estate of said decedent, but charged the respective interest of each of the five plaintiffs, being respectively a one tenth interest therein, with the sum…
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