Campbell v. Bartlett

The bill in the present case was filed to recover a one-eighth undivided interest in a tract of land described. This land was sold, or the greater part of it in 185B, to James S. Murray, complainant’s father, by a title bond executed by one J. M. Cooper. In 1861, fifty acres additional were -added, and *210the old title bond taken np and a new oné executed, putting both tracts into one. In December, 1864, Murray-died, without baying paid the purchase money for either tract. His children all married and moved away, except F. M. Murray. He remained upon the land with his mother until about the year…