Kinkead v. Spillers

Tom Glaze, Justice.

On September 27, 1994, appellees Carol Kinkead Spillers and Jeannine Kinkead Stroud filed a petition for partition. They along with their brothers Harold and Robert had obtained a one-fourth interest in the property. Harold died, leaving his one-fourth interest to Carol and Jeannine, so that the sisters each owned a three-eighths interest in the property at the time the partition action was filed. Carol and Jeannine requested that the property be sold, but Robert wanted the property to be divided in kind. Robert’s wife, Joyce, having a dower interest, was made a party to…