Lowell v. Bouchillon

Marshall, Justice.

The two appellant sisters, together with a third sister (the wife of the appellee-executor of the will of the sisters’ father), are the specific devisees of the family home place. After the failure of an attempted agreement among the three sisters for the land to be appraised and sold and the proceeds divided among them, the executor began proceedings to sell the land, apparently based upon the authority and power conferred by Item 8 of the will, “to sell any part of my estate at public or private sale, with or without notice as he may deem best and without any order of any…