Marvin v. Kelsey

This is a direct appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Woodford county dismissing appellant’s bill for partition for want of equity, and reforming a deed as prayed in appellee’s cross-bill. The suit was filed August 22, 1931, by appellant, Josephine Marvin, to partition the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 9, township -2J north, range 2 east of the third principal meridian in Wood-ford county. It was alleged that Christian H. Ruvenacht, the father of the parties in interest, had been seized of this forty-acre tract at his death on April 26, 1925, and that it had…