Bierce v. James
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from Chancery Court of Shelby County. B. M. Estes, Ch. Two bills for partition dismissed on demurrer. Complainants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSnodgrass, J.
This cause, and the one heard with it (Hatchett v. Wells), involve different aspects of the same question in partition — that is, whether parties entitled to an estate in remainder *539or reversion, and not in possession together, are entitled to have it partitioned, or sold for partition, the life tenant joining in the application or resisting it.
The first canse stated was a bill filed to sell for partition twenty acres of land which was covered by a dower assigned to Mrs. E. C. Cooper (now Glenn), and by her conveyed to the defendant, E. A. Bierce, upon the allegation that complainant owned…
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