Andrews v. Vandiver

SHORES, Justice.

The plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the defendants in a case based on a dispute over the ownership of a tract of real property in Colbert County, Alabama. We affirm.

The plaintiffs, Joyce Andrews, Nancy Kerby, and N.A. Vandiver (two sisters and a brother), filed a complaint for a partition of land. The defendants were their father, Robert Ross Vandiver, Sr., and their brothers, Robert Ross Vandiver, Jr., and Harry Truman Vandiver. The plaintiffs alleged that they owned a seven-eighths undivided interest in the subject property.

The defendants answered and…