Pearson v. Kepner
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Miami Circuit Court; J. T. Cox, Judge. Suit by Ira Pearson against Amos A. Kepner and others for partition. From a judgment in favor of defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, P. J.
Appellant sues for partition. It appears from an answer and cross-complaint, to which demurrers were overruled, that Rhoda Gr. Pearson died intestate August 18,1897, leaving as her only heirs, appellant, her husband, and four children, named. She owned in fee a tract of land worth $3,300, upon which, at her death, was a mortgage, in which the husband had joined, for $2,400.35, and a tax lien for $21.49. The administrator of her estate, upon application to the circuit court, to which appellant was made a party, duly served with process, and defaulted, obtained an order to sell the land to…
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