Thompson v. McCorkle

The appellee, as widow of John McCorkle, who died at Shelbyville, Indiana, May 20, 1880, on the 13th day of January, 1890, brought an action, in the Jasper Circuit Court, against the appellant, alleging, in substance, that her husband, prior to August 23, 1859, owned the north half of the southeast quarter of section *48621, township 31 north, range 7 west, containing 80 acres, in said county; that plaintiff is the owner of the undivided one-third of said real estate, and defendant is owner of the undivided two-thirds part thereof; that the same is susceptible of equitable partition between the…