Winfree v. Jones

The parties to this suit inherited the lands sought to be partitioned or sold, and the appellees filed complaint in partition in the Lonoke Chancery Court in which suit they sought to have the land divided into four parts, which would be held by the heirs of the four brothers and sisters of Governor James P. Eagle as tenants in common.

The appellants filed a demurrer, answer, and cross-complaint in which they asked for a partition of said lands, and, in event they could not be divided in kind among the twenty-eight heirs according to their respective interests, that said lands be sold and the…