Dean v. Snelling
Tennessee Supreme Court
EROM BEDFORD. County Court, before Vi. Galbraith, Chm’n, and J. M. H. ColeMAN and John Wilhoite, Esqrs., of the quorum. cited, Boynton v. Hub-hard, 7 Mass., Ill; Davis v. Hayden, 9 Mass., 514; 3d Washb. on Real Prop., 87, 89, 293, 302, 381, 382; White y. Pullen, 24 Pick, 324; Fitzgerald v. Vestal, 4 Sneed, 258; Fitch v. Fiteh, 8 Pick., 480; Stover y.
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EROM BEDFORD. County Court, before Vi. Galbraith, Chm’n, and J. M. H. ColeMAN and John Wilhoite, Esqrs., of the quorum. cited, Boynton v. Hub-hard, 7 Mass., Ill; Davis v. Hayden, 9 Mass., 514; 3d Washb. on Real Prop., 87, 89, 293, 302, 381, 382; White y. Pullen, 24 Pick, 324; Fitzgerald v. Vestal, 4 Sneed, 258; Fitch v. Fiteh, 8 Pick., 480; Stover y. Flkshemer, 46 Barb., 84; Hunter v. Bryan, 5 Hum., 47; Shaw v. Galbraith, 7 Penn., Ill; Terrelt v. Taylor, 9 Cranch, 53; Adams v. Ross, 1 Verm.,-; Blanchard v. Brooks, 12 Pick., 67; Sto. Eq., 236; Hicks Ch. Pr., 36, 236; Code, 2949, 3266, 4321,…
1Opinion of the CourtNelsoN, J.
Elizabeth Snelling, an idiot, departed this life, leaving as her heirs at law, one brother, a sister, the daughter of a deceased sister, and the children of a deceased brother, Lemuel; and this petition was filed in the County Court of Bedford, by the said children, and the heirs of Lemuel, against the proper parties, for a partition or sale of the *486tract of land therein described, of which the said Elizabeth was the owner at the time of her death.
Lemuel Snelling died previously to his sister Elizabeth, and it may be inferred that her brother John died subsequently. The defendants, who are the…
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