Burchfield v. Asher

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

A. J. Aslier and Ms infant granddaughter, Willie Jean Hodges, Mrs. Virginia Burchfield, and her children owned an undivided interest in seven tracts of unimproved mineral and timber lands in Leslie county, lying in a body and aggregating 2,311.4-6 acres. Fractional interests in some of these lands were owned by A. B. and J. M. Culton and Mary Tarvin.

A. J. Asher filed suit against the other parties named for the sale of all the lands in a body on the ground of indivisibility. The Cultons and Burchfields defended. A…