Cales v. Ford

Believing that a restatement of how the legal questions submitted for decision arose in the lower court will clarify my view of the case, I shall first state my understanding of how the issues were raised, beginning with the allegations of the bill of complaint.

This proceeding was instituted by Irene Cales- for the purpose of having partitioned among the eight heirs at law of R. H. Ford two contiguous tracts of land of which he died seized and possessed, one containing one hundred and fifty-four acres and the other forty-four acres and sixty-five poles, both having been conveyed to R. H. Ford…