Adams v. Alexander
Indiana Supreme Court
From Marion Circuit Court; Vinson Carter, Special Judge. Petition by Melville C. Alexander, administrator of the estate of Cynthia F. Lankford against Eliza J. Adams and others to sell real estate. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Transferred from Appellate Court, under §1337u Burns 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtDowling, C. J.
— Cynthia F. Lankford died July 11, 1899, intestate, and owing debts. The appellee, as the administrator of her estate filed his petition in the Marion Circuit Court for an order to sell the undivided one-third of a tract of land in said county, if the court should find that the intestate was the owner thereof. The appellants, who were children and grandchildren of the intestate, or their grantees, and the husbands and wives of such of them *176as were married, were made defendants. The answer of the appellants denied the matters stated in the petition, and set np title in themselves. A demurrer…
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