Ladner v. Pigford

Appellants filed a bill for the partition of lands against the appellee setting up in their bill that they were the children of Jonathan Ladner, and were each entitled to an undivided one-twelfth interest in certain lands described in the bill. Complainants further alleged that their father, Jonathan Ladner, had nine sons and daughters by a previous marriage, and that petitioners were the children of his second marriage. Complainants further alleged that the defendant had acquired title of the nine children of Jonathan Ladner by his first marriage either by direct or mesne conveyances.

The…