Monroe v. Lyons

Action to partition certain real estate. The judgment below decreed partition as prayed and defendants appealed.

One Thomas Stockton died seized of the land in question and left surviving him his widow, Henrietta Stockton, and the following named children: Mary Franklin Lyons, Ira Stockton, W. F. Stockton and O. D. Stockton. After Thomas Stockton’s death his widow and children above named conveyed an undivided one-fifth interest in the estate, both real and personal, to one Charles E. Stockton, subject to the payment of the debts of the deceased, and subject to the rights of the widow. This…