Samples v. Samples

The determinative issue in this cause is whether W. H. Jenkins or his wife, Mary A. Jenkins (later Vincent) died the owner of a two-thirds undivided interest in a tract of eighty acres of land, described in the bill. (After the death of W. H. Jenkins she was married to one Vincent.) The original bill was filed by John L. S'amples and others to obtain a sale for partition of said land, except four acres previously sold therefrom.

The contest is< between Sam Jenkins, claiming by inheritance from his father W. H. Jenkins, and complainants, nieces and nephews of Mary Jenkins, later Vincent,…