Robinson v. Miller

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In 1810 Bazzell Maxwell died possessed of 200 acres of land, in Madison county, which had been for more than twenty years in the peaceable possession of himself and his father, who had devised it to him. In 1813, the County Court of Madision, by commissioners, assigned to *89the widow of B. Maxwell, who intermarried with D. B. Harris, 58 acres, part of the said200 acres, as herdower in that tract; and in 1815, the residue of the tract was divided, by commissioners of the same Court, between James Maxwell, Malinda Maxwell, and Betsey Maxwell,…