Westcott v. Sharp

STAKELY, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree of the equity court, dismissing two cross-bills of the appellants (cross-complainants in the lower court) and awarding the relief prayed for in the complainant’s original bill for the sale for division of the lands therein described.

Arthur S. Sharp, a resident of Oxford, Alabama, was married to Vera Henderson on July 5, 1947. They had no children. Arthur Sharp died September 16, 1948. He was survived by his widow Vera Sharp, his sister Malta Wells and two grandnieces, who are minors, Martha Rose Hanson and Sarah Diane Hanson. At the time of his…