Criss v. Criss

Statement of the case by

GREEN, Judge :

This was an action for the partition of a tract of land near Clarksburg in Harrison county, W. Va., containing about forty-three acres, which descended from Michael Criss on his death among his heirs and among others, who had purchased the interests of several of the heirs therein. The bill, which was filed in the circuit court of Harrison in 1875, prayed for a partition of this land in kind among those entitled thereto, or, if partition can not be so made, that a sale thereof he decreed, and a partition o‘f the proceeds of this sale be made between the…