Purcell v. Purcell

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The controversy is over whether a tract of land should he partitioned or sold because of indivisibility. ••

Richard Purcell died in 1939 survived by his widow, a son, Harry, and a daughter, Alice. He owned 110 acres on which he had lived for many years. It borders 950 feet on the Ohio River and extends southwardly, substantially between parallel lines, a distance of nearly one mile. The southern half is hilly and scarcely tillable! The northern half is cut in two by a railroad and, about 1700 feet south of it, by a highway. There is a…