Goff v. Disbennet

An order of distribution of the proceeds of the sale of lands in partition is sought to be reversed.

The question arises under the construction of R. S. 4159, (Gen. Code 8574), relating to the descent- of real estate which -came to the intestate by purchase.

The action was for the partition of the lands of one Samuel Goff who died intestate, never having married and who had no brothers or sisters living at the time of his death, but who had had six brothers and sisters all of whom 'had died before his own death leaving children surviving them, to whom the lands mentioned and described in the…