Smith v. Persons

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

Respondents and cross-complainants appeal from a (final and supplemental) decree of the Circuit Court of Macon County in Equity, wherein certain lands belonging to appellants and appellee were ordered sold for partition among the joint owners (appellants and appellee), and certain relief denied to appellants. Demurrers of appellee to an original cross bill and amendatory cross bills were sustained and the cross bills dismissed upon failure of appellants further to amend them.

It appears from the evidence without dispute that one F. J. Persons, Sr., died in 1914,…