McCarthy v. McCarthy

In this case it is shown, that, on the 3d day of October, 1871, Timothy McCarty filed in the Switzerland Circuit Court his petition against Catharine McCarty, Joseph McCarty and Mary McCarty, alleging that one Jeremiah McCarty had died seized in fee-simple of a certain forty-acre tract of land in Switzerland county, and left the said Mary McCarty as his widow, and the said Timothy, Catharine and Joseph as his only children, surviving him ; that the said Alary was, as such widow, entitled to one-third part of said tract of land during her natural life, and that the said Timothy, Catharine and *130J…