Hancock v. Horne

The complainants, Mrs. Hancock and Mrs. Wood, and the defendant Oscar ITorne, were the owners of four hundred and forty-three acres of land lying in Giles county, this State. The two complainants, sisters of the defendant, owned each a one-seventh undivided interest, and the defendant owned the remaining five-sevenths, one-seventh by inheritance, and the residue by purchase from other coheirs. At the death of their mother these parties, complainants and defendant, desired to sell the land for the purpose of dividing the proceeds. The two complainants lived out West; Mrs. Hancock in Oklahoma,…