Smalling v. Smalling

Mrs. J. H. Smalling and husband owned 77 acres of land near Trinidad in Henderson county. Mr. Smalling died intestate, leaving his wife and seven children. This suit was instituted by Mrs. Smalling and five of the children against the other two children, Mrs. Jackson and Charles Small-ing, appellants herein, for a partition of said tract of land, alleging that Mrs. Smalling was entitled to a ,one-half interest .and each of the seven children to a one-fourteenth interest therein. Appellants answered said petition and admitted the property was owned' in the proportions named by appellees. The…