Copeland v. Voge

Plaintiffs and defendants are children of the same mother, plaintiffs being the issue of her marriage to Leonard L. Lawson, who died intestate June 19, 1894, and defendants the issue of her later marriage (in February 1897) to August N. Yoge, who died intestate October 25, 1940. Lottie Lawson Yoge, the mother, died intestate in 1934.

The land involved consists of one hundred sixty acres acquired by Leonard L. Lawson in 1887, subject to a $2,000 mortgage which he assumed. . This mortgage and two later ones placed on the land by him, the three aggregating $4,000, were unsatisfied when he died.…