Anderson v. Lucas

The complainants filed their bill in the chancery court of Dyer, county, claiming the ownership of seven hundred acres of land in that county. The chancellor dismissed the bill on demurrer. The case was then appealed to this court.

The complainants are the children of . Almira Ase-neath Cherry, who intermarried with one Anderson, the father of the complainants. Mrs. Anderson died in 1912. She was the daughter of Daniel Cherry, who died on the 3d of November, 1843, leaving his *339will, which devised a very large estate, composed of land, negroes, and miscellaneous personal property to his…