Price v. Winter
Supreme Court of Florida
This action was instituted in Abe Circuit Court of the Fourth Judicial Circuit for the county of Duval by Samuel A. Winter, one of the devisees under the will of his father, James Winter, who died in February, A. D. 1857. The will directed a division of the land in kind among the children, share and share alike, in case a fair and equal division in kind could be made.
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This action was instituted in Abe Circuit Court of the Fourth Judicial Circuit for the county of Duval by Samuel A. Winter, one of the devisees under the will of his father, James Winter, who died in February, A. D. 1857. The will directed a division of the land in kind among the children, share and share alike, in case a fair and equal division in kind could be made. In the year 1857, James L. Winter? the executor, filed his petition under the statute of this State in the Circuit Court for Duval County, alleging that the land so devised could not be equally, fairly and beneficially divided,…
1Opinion of the CourtWestcott, J.
James L. Winter, executor of thd last will and testatnent of J ames Winter, deceased, filed his petition in the Circuit Court of Duval county, in the -year 1857, alleging that the land which the testator directed should be divided between the devisees under the will could not be equally, fairly and beneficially divided. The parties interested in the estate were named defendants in the petition, and among them was the plaintiff in this cause, who was at'that time an infant about eighteen years of age and a resident of the State of South Carolina. A sale was had under these proceedings, the…
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