Stout v. Dunning

— Complaint for the partition of lands by the appellees against the appellants'. James B. Stout answered the complaint by a general denial, which was afterward withdrawn, and also by two special paragraphs. , The second paragraph, pleaded by James B. Stout separately, admitted an interest in the complainants in said lands, but averred that all of said real estate was subject to a life-estate in himself ; that said real estate, in the year 1862, was owned by Daniel Stout; that said Daniel Stout and wife conveyed the same to the grantors of the plaintiffs, who are the children of James B.…