Dawson v. Ohio Oil Co.

This action is in form a petitory action, but the recitals of the petition show that it is -in substance simply an action by some of the forced heirs of one Jonathan Taylor to require the defendants to surrender in kind certain lands which they hold by purchase from some of the children of said Jonathan - Taylor, to whom they had been donated by him, and which the plaintiffs claim, should be collated by said' donees, or their assigns, in order to equalize the shares of all the children in the succession of their parents. The prayer of the petitioners is that they be recognized as owners of…