Burton v. Perry

The complainants, Perry and Henderson, file this bill for the partition of forty acres of lánd, and claim to be the owners of an undivided half thereof. The defendants deny the ownership asserted by the complainants, and contend that they are themselves the owners of the whole of the forty acres. Therefore, the first question to he determined is, whether the complainants own any interest in the land, and, if they do, what interest.

It is not denied, that, on February 16, 1836, Isaac Cook, then holding the Government title to eighty acres, of which the tract of forty acres now in controversy is…