Patterson v. Nixon

— Action by the appellant against the appellees for partition. The complaint, after entitling the cause and stating the names of the parties, was as follows:

“ The plaintiff complains of the defendants, and says that she and they are the owners in fee simple and tenants in common of the following described real estate situated in Pike county and State of Indiana, to wit:(description.) “That one Thomas J. Conger departed this life intestate, and seized in fee simple of said real estate, on the 1st day of March, 1856, leaving neither widow nor children surviving him, but leaving as his only…