Roof v. Rule

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Mason county ordering partition of certain real estate.

On July 18, 1862, Pollard Simmons was seized of the property in question. The bill alleges that on said date he conveyed it to his daughter, Harriet E. Rule, and her bodily heirs, "as by the said deed when produced and by a certified copy of the same hereto attached and marked 'Exhibit A' and made a part of this bill for greater certainty will more fully appear." The premises of "Exhibit A" read as follows: "This indenture, made this eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one…