Ward v. Ward

Maxwell, Judge:

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Randolph County appointing a receiver of a farm and of live stock and other personal property thereon.

The suit is for partition of the land and personalty. The plaintiffs are Lena June Ward, Elihu Bess Ward and Emma Ward, sisters; the principal defendant is their brother, Bruce Ward; the other defendant, merely nominal, is Marie Poling, another sister.

The plaintiffs and their brother reside together at the family homestead on a farm of about 890 acres in Randolph County. Their mother died testate in May, 1933, and, by her…