McFarland v. Beaton

BOND, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents error on the action of the trial court in sustaining a general demurrer to plaintiffs’ petition, and, plaintiffs declining to amend, dismissing the suit.

Appellants, Lawton McFarland, et al., instituted this suit against Ralph A. Bea-ton, Newton G. Flippen, H. A. Hardie and B. E. Haughton, alleging in substance, pertinent here, that they were and are the children of J. V. McFarland and Georgia McFarland, and that, at the death of their father, they inherited an undivided one-half interest in certain designated real and personal property of the…