Frazier v. Patterson

Thomas R. James and Jane G. James, husband and wife, acquired title to a farm of about two hundred acres in Pike county, Illinois, a part of which was owned by each in severalty and the residue was owned by them jointly. The several tracts so acquired constituted a part of a regular subdivision, but their respective titles were so intermixed as to malee it difficult to trace the lines of ownership except by recourse to their numerous deeds. The entire body.of land constituted one farm and was occupied and farmed in common. They had one child, Eva, who married a man by the name of Frazier.…