Coombs v. Persons Unknown
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On REPORT. Petition for partition. The law court were to determine the rights of the parties and order such entry or judgment as the law, facts and admissions warrant. The report shows the following statement of facts: Daniel Edgocomb died possessed of a homestead farm situated in the town of Lisbon, and leaving as heirs-at-law, a wife and ten children, one of whom was John It.
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On REPORT. Petition for partition. The law court were to determine the rights of the parties and order such entry or judgment as the law, facts and admissions warrant. The report shows the following statement of facts: Daniel Edgocomb died possessed of a homestead farm situated in the town of Lisbon, and leaving as heirs-at-law, a wife and ten children, one of whom was John It. Edgeoomb, through whom the petitioner, Coombs, claims title to one tenth of said homestead farm, described in the petition: that the said John E. Edgeoomb was duly adjudged an insolvent debtor upon the petition of his…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
The petitioner seeks a division of the homestead left by Daniel Edgeeomb at his death, who died intestate in 1865. There were ten heirs, and the petitioner claims the share of one of the heirs; which came to him from an assignee of such heir, whose estate was in insolvency. Notice -was given of this petition for partition by publication, the other owners being unknown. In response to the published notice eight of the heirs have appeared as respondents, each claiming one tenth of the homestead by inheritance.
Notice was ordered by the court, on whose motion it does not appear, upon Jesse Davis,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re LittlefieldDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1869