Roberts v. . Roberts

Thomas Roberts died in 1841, intestate, leaving a widow and eleven children him surviving. The bill was filed in 1843 by Morris Roberts, one of the children, against the widow and the other ten children, praying for a sale of a tract of some 550 acres of land, which had descended to the children as his heirs-at-law, and in which the widow was entitled to dower. The bill also prays that the widow, and those of the children who had occupied portions of the land, should be decreed to account for the rent of the parts occupied. The land has been long since sold under a decree for the purpose of…