Clough v. Cromwell

These are two petitions for the partition *327of land in West Tisbury and Edgartown on the southerly shore of Martha’s Vineyard. The cases come up by appeal from a decree in each case ordering a sale of the property at public auction.

In the first petition, filed May 8, 1922, seven individuals joined as petitioners against three respondents for a partition of all the land in question. Later, when it appeared that one Daniel C. Look, not a party to the petition, was a part owner of two of the lots described therein, an amendment was filed eliminating them from the first petition, and a second…