Mauck v. Melton

This was an action for the partition of two forty-acre tracts of land in Harrison county, by Mary Mauck and her husband, George Mauck, against Lavisa Melton and her husband, Daniel Melton, Daniel T. Gilmore and Mollie Gilmore.

The complaint alleged, that Mary Gilmore, who was the mother of the said Mary and Lavisa and the grandmother of the said Daniel T. Gilmore and Mollie Gilmore, had died intestate, seized in fee-simple of the lands of which partition was demanded.

Mrs. Melton and her husband answered in three paragraphs :

1. In general denial.

2. Setting up a verbal contract, by which, in…