Spikes v. Hibbard

This suit for the partition of eighty acres of land was originally filed by four of the appellants. The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs owned an undivided five-eighths interest in the land and that the defendants owned the other three-eighths. By answer the defendants denied the plaintiffs’ assertion of co-ownership, interposed a plea of adverse possession, and asked that the defendants ’ own title be quieted.

A substantial amount of testimony was taken, which seems to have indicated that other members of the plaintiffs ’ family have an interest in the land. About thirteen months after…