Shaw v. Swift

Perkins, J. —

Bill in chancery, filed July 8, 1842. The bill alleges that James Powell died intestate, possessed in fee simple of the 60 acres of land described in the bill, which descended to his heirs; that those heirs are the complainants, Mary Swift and her husband James, and Sarah Reeder, and William Powell, William Spicer, and Jemima Spicer, and the heirs of Henry Powell, and of Reeder Powell and James Powell; that advances were made by James in his lifetime to William Powell, son, and Jemima Spicer, daughter, and her husband, and to James and *566Henry Powell to tbeir full shares…