DeCottes v. Clarkson
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County. Statement. Appellants filed a bill in chancery against appellees and one Margaret C. Fairlie, for a partition of lot five (5), block thirty-three (33) old numbering, of the. city of Jacksonville, or lot five (5), block eighty-one (81) of the new numbering, said lot being situate at the southeast corner of the intersection of Laura and Monroe streets in said city.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County. Statement. Appellants filed a bill in chancery against appellees and one Margaret C. Fairlie, for a partition of lot five (5), block thirty-three (33) old numbering, of the. city of Jacksonville, or lot five (5), block eighty-one (81) of the new numbering, said lot being situate at the southeast corner of the intersection of Laura and Monroe streets in said city. The bill alleged that Mary L. Moody, deceased, during her lifetime and to the time of her death was the head of a family and resided upon the lot described as her homestead; that she…
1Opinion of the CourtMabry, J.
(after statiúg the facts.)
Counsel for appellants say in their brief filed in this •case that the “bill of complaint through inadvertance prayed for a partition, of the whole lot, but the western portion is the only part of the lot sought to be subjected to the partition, and it was so> understood at the final hearing in the court below.” In view of this statement our decision will be confined to> the western, eighty-two and one-half feet of lot five (5) in block thirty-three (33)- old numbering, of the city of Jacksonville or lot five (5) in block eighty-one (81), new numbering.
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