Arnett v. Deem

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

In a partition proceeding in th.e Magoffin county court, the commissioners, who allotted the lands among the nine adult children of Nathan Howard, deceased, allowed the heirs to draw for the several lots which were numbered from 1 to 9 inclusive. The youngest child, Bertha Howard, was born with deformed hands and feet and was the only one of the family who did not have a home. She had always lived with her father and mother at the homestead and she did not want to leave it. To avoid this, she called in her sisters and brothers, after the lands…