Baker v. Riley

This was a petition for partition, brought by Balter, the appellant, against Haihan 0. Thayer, in which the petitioner claimed the undivided half of a forty acre tract of land, alleging that Thayer was entitled to the other half. The matter was brought to a hearing, and judgment of partition was entered, and commissioners were appointed to make partition; and the cause was continued until the next term of the Court for the report of the commissioners.

At the next term of the Court, Riley, the appellee, filed his petition to be made a party defendant, setting up title in himself to the whole…