Beers v. Hotchkiss

Miles, Referee.

This action in form, is one in partition. The premises involved consist of about 500 acres of wild land, uninclosed, uncultivated and unimproved, situated in the town of Southampton, Suffolk county, covered with a growth of scrub oaks and pines common in wild land in that section. The plaintiff alleges that he and the defendant Henry G. Hotchkiss are the owners in fee as tenants in common and in possession of the premises in question, subject only to the inchoate right of dower of the defendant Gladys Hotchkiss, the wife of the defendant Henry G. Hotchkiss.

The plaintiff also…