Brittain v. Farrington

Appellants filed a bill in the circuit court of Pike county seeking partition of two tracts of land, one of forty acres and the other of slightly less than seven acres. They set out in the bill that they are the heirs-at-law of John Brittain, who during his lifetime was the owner of seven tracts of land of forty acres each. He died in 1878, leaving a last will and testament. By the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth clauses of his will he devised in each a specifically described forty acres of land and a one-sixth part of another forty acres to five of his children and his…