Wallace v. Quick

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

This is an action for the partition of a tract of land containing 135 acres alleged to have belonged to one Evander Wallace, Sr., and inherited by the plaintiffs and all of the defendants except Norman Quick, who claims the entire interest in the land. The case is quite complicated.

It appears essential to an apprehension of the various points that have arisen that a statement of the family relations of the Wallaces be given at the outset:

All of the parties, including the defendant Norman Quick, claim through a common source of…