Crowley v. Ballard

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

Tbe appellees and plaintiffs below, M. F. Ballard and Ms surviving, children (Ms wife being deceased),, filed this equity action in the Webster circuit court against appellant and one of the defendants below, A. C. Crowley, and two of M. F. Ballard’s grandchildren, one of whose parents was an heir of his deceased wife. The petition sought a sale for division of a tract of land in Webster county containing between 25 and 30 acres, in which plaintiffs claim to own a three-fourths undivided interest, and that the other one-fourth interest belonged to…