Crum v. Meeks

David Taylor died intestate in Wells county in the year 1882, seized in fee of certain land upon which one McKee held a mortgage to secure the sum of eight hundred dollars, which was the only lien thereon. The appellant was duly appointed administrator of Taylor’s estate, and the personal assets being insufficient to pay the debts, he filed a petition alleging that fact, and asking that the widow’s interest in the land be set off to her in severalty, in order that he might sell the remaining two-thirds. Commissioners were appointed to make partition, and reported that the land could not be…