Peden v. Cavins

This is a suit for the partition of certain real estate situate in Greene county, Indiana. The suit was instituted in the Greene Circuit Court and the venue afterwards changed to the Daviess Circuit Court, where there was a trial by the court, a special finding of facts and conclusions of law stated, and judgment rendered in favor of the appellees, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The complaint is, in form, an ordinary complaint in partition.

It appears that one Hughes East and wife conveyed all of the lands to the appellant in 1866, and put the appellant in possession of the…