Reed v. Douthit

This was a bill in chancery in the Shelby circuit court brought by the descendants of John Douthit, deceased, who died intestate, for a partition of the lands of which their said ancestor died seized, and to which bill Andrew E. Douthit, Haney Stewartson, and William H. Douthit, children of John Douthit, and Matilda Douthit, widow of John Douthit, were made defendants. William H. and Matilda Douthit made separate answers, William denying that his father, John Douthit, «died seized of the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, and north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of section…