Barrett v. Vickers

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

This is a controversy of ancient vintage among the four children (and their successors) of the late S. T. Vickers over the property known as the Vickers Ranch east of Nephi, Utah. The facts concerning the vesting of a one-fourth interest in each of said children are set forth in an earlier decision.1 The property remained in that status until in the year 1960, the district court had entered a decree stating that “it' is inequitable and unfair to order a sale óf the property.”

Upon appeal this court ruled that the co-tenants were entitled as a matter of right to…