Trowbridge v. Donner

•This action was brought to partition a 120-acre tract of unimproved farm land. Admittedly, plaintiff and her sister, defendant Jennie Donner, each owned an undivided one-half interest therein, as tenants in common. Defendants Forrest Trowbridge and Ernest Donner, who both defaulted, were their respective husbands and interested only as such. Defendants Robert L. Edwards and John Donner, a son of defendant Jennie Donner, answered, claiming an interest as tenants of the entire tract under an oral lease expiring March 1, 1949, and a written lease from March 1, 1949, to March 1, 1950.

The right…