Field v. Leiter
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Raramie County, Hon. Richard H. Scott, Judge. Action for partition. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The examination by the commissioners of the lands pardoned, made by merely driving over the lands when they were covered with snow, was entirely inadequate.
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Error to the District Court, Raramie County, Hon. Richard H. Scott, Judge. Action for partition. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The examination by the commissioners of the lands pardoned, made by merely driving over the lands when they were covered with snow, was entirely inadequate. (R. S. 1899, Sec. 4086.) The failure of the plaintiffs below.to accept one of the offers of defendants is conclusive evidence that they are unwilling to stand upon their opinion as to values, and that an inequitable partition - has been made. When gross inequality of a partition is proven, as in…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Chief Justice.
This is an action for partition, and is in this court on error. It was brought in the district court in Laramie County by Mary T. Leiter, Joseph Leiter, and others, trustees and devisees under the last will and testament of Levi Z. Leiter, deceased. The defendants were Marshall Field, trustee; James H. Pratt, and Mary T. Leiter and Joseph Leiter, executors of the last will and testament of Levi Z. Leiter, deceased.
The amended petition upon which the cause was heard alleges in substance that on June 15, 1903, and for many years prior thereto Levi Z. Leiter and James H.…
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