Harris v. Harris

By this suit the appellant, Tom Harris, who has record title to an undivided seven-eighths interest in the forty-acre tract in controversy, seeks to quiet his title to the whole as against his brother John, the appellee, who is the apparent owner of the other one-eighth interest. The chancellor rejected Tom’s claim of complete ownership and granted John’s request for partition, the decree correctly directing that John’s share be allotted to him from the unimproved portion of the property.

These litigants and the other six children of R. P. Harris, inherited this tract, then unimproved, from…