Browder v. Mitchell

In November, 1946, J. C. Mitchell, Ellen M. Powell and Henry T. Mitchell, the appellees, filed their bill in the court below against Mary F. Mitchell Shearin, alleging that the three plaintiffs and the defendant, their mother, were the joint owners of a tract of 230.9 acres of land in Brunswick county, Virginia; that the defendant was non compos mentis; that the plaintiffs desired a partition of the land, but that it was not susceptible of partition in kind; that they had received from Effie M. Browder and F. M. Newsom, Jr., an offer of $5,050 for the land; that they considered the offer…