Hays v. Hays

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

This action was instituted by Laura Hays, widow, against Major- Hays, her uncle, in the Lawrence circuit court, for a division of a certain tract of land supposed to contain about eighty to one hundred acres. The petition alleges that the plaintiff, Laura Hays, is the owner of one-tenth undivided interest in the said tract of land and that Major Hays owns nine-tenths thereof. It does not allege that the tract is susceptible of advantageous division. By answer Major Hays denies that Laura Hays is the owner of a one-tenth undivided interest, or any…