Brown v. Brown

In this action respondents (plaintiffs below) seek to partition certain real estate in New Madrid County. Plaintiffs claim interest in the land involved as heirs at law of George H. Hancock, deceased. Appellant Bertha Conyers was not originally a party, but sought and was granted leave to intervene. In her intervening petition and the answer which she filed she sets up a claim to an undivided one-half interest in a portion of the lands, partition of which is sought by the plaintiffs, basing her claim upon a quitclaim deed from Mary Elizabeth Hancock, now deceased, widow of George H. Hancock.…