Barnes v. McKay

This was a bill in chancery by McKay and wife against Jane Barnes and others, setting forth the following facts:

*302One Richard Bundren, who, in his lifetime, owned an eighty acre tract of land, died, leaving the appellant, Jane Barnes, his only heir at law. She married Nathaniel Ba/rnes, by whom she had issue thirteen children, of whom the wife of McKay is one. The other twelve are made defendants. Nathaniel Barnes, in his lifetime, owned an eighty acre tract, and two forty acre tracts, all adjoining the Bundren tract, of which he died seized. After his death, in 1847, Isom Ba/rnes, one of his…