Havens v. Sea Shore Land Co.

Van Fleet, V. C.

This is a partition suit. The title to one of the tracts which the complainants seek to have divided is in dispute. The defendant asserts title to the whole tract; the complainants, on the other hand, assert a title to the undivided half of it, but admit that the defendant has title to an undivided fourth and that the title to *367the other undivided fourth is in certain other persons. The defendant exhibits a paper title to the whole tract; the important question, therefore, presented for decision is, is the title exhibited by the defendant valid ? for if it is, the bill as…