Mulford v. Hiers

The Chancellor.

On the 15th of January, 1857, a hill was filed for the partition of the real estate of Garret Hiers, deceased. Hiers died intestate, leaving him surviving a widow, Sarah E. Heirs, four children, by the said Sarah, and two children, the issue of a former marriage. *14The master having reported that a partition could not he made without great prejudice to the owners of the premises, on the 18th day of January, 1858, by a decree of the court, it was ordered that the same should be sold, and that the master should, with the said premises, sell the estate in dower of the said Sarah E.…