Davis v. Caudill

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Reversing.

J. M. Trimble, who owned a large boundary of land in Johnson county, died in November, 1925, leaving a widow and 13 heirs. On September 2, 1926, Wince Trimble and other heirs of J. M. Trimble filed a suit in the Johnson county court seeking a partition of the land owned by J. M. Trimble at the time of his death. The court appointed commissioners, who divided the land and executed deeds to the various heirs.

On September 6, 1932, Yirgil Davis and other children of Bertha Trimble Davis, a daughter of J. M. Trimble, who predeceased her father,…