Hawkins v. Third

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

The bill of complaint seeks to cancel, set aside and hold for naught the deed under which respondent claims to own the lands involved, and a sale for division among the alleged joint owners of said lands. The trial court sustained demurrers to the bill and dismissed it. Hence this appeal.

In substance, the bill as amended alleges that complainants and respondent are all the heirs at law and next of kin of Julie Hawkins and her husband, P. F. Hawkins, both deceased. That on, to-wit, April 4, 1912, Julie Hawkins and her husband were occupying the lands involved as a part of…