Hickenbotham v. Blackledge

This was a suit in chancery, brought by Woodruff Blackledge and Elizabeth Blackledge, in the Clay circuit court, against William. Hickenbotham and Elizabeth Hickenbotham, for the partition of six hundred and forty acres of land. The bill charges that complainants and defendants, with a number of other persons, who are minors, are the owners of the land; that the parties in interest derive their title to the property as children and heirs of Gideon Hickenbotham, deceased, except Woodruff Blackledge, who only claims such an interest as he acquired by marriage with one of the heirs. There is a…