Long v. Williams

This was an action for partition, in which .John Williams, the appellee, was plaintiff, and Nancy Long the appellant, and a considerable number of others, nearly all lineal descendants of one John White, deceased, were defendants. The complaint alleged that John White died intestate, in 1888, seized, amongst other tracts, of an eighty-acre tract of land, in Shelby county, the tract of which partition was demanded, and leaving a widow and six children; that the tract in controversy was afterwards assigned to the widow during her life as and for her dower interest in the lands •of hecr said…