Lester v. Reynolds

A petition alleged in substance as follows: An owner of land died intestate, leaving a wife and three children. With the knowledge and consent of the widow, the three children divided the land left by the decedent into three shares, apportioning one to each, and taking possession of their respective shares so apportioned. The widow and two of the children executed to the other child a conveyance of the share which had been set apart to him, all being of age. One of the children, a daughter, disappeared about eleven years before the present suit was brought, and has never been heard from…