Parker v. Parker
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for partition, in which the petitioner alleged that she was seized in fee of two eighths of one fifth of several parcels of real estate therein described, as tenant in common with the respondents.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.
The present petitioner, one of the daughters *136of the late James Parker of Barnstable, claiming to be tenant in common with her brothers, of various tracts and parcels of land, brings her petition and prays to have partition made, so that she may hold her share in severalty. She claims as heir to her brother Nehemiah Parker, deceased, of all that part of the real estate of their father, which he devised to his son, the said Nehemiah. The respondents deny that the interest which said Nehemiah took in his father’s estate under his will, in the events which happened, was such an absolute estate in…
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