Higdon v. Higdon

BOULDIN, Justice.

The appeal is from a decree overruling demurrers to a bill in equity. Two , questions are presented. One is a question of jurisdiction.

The bill was filed on behalf of a minor, sixteen years of age, by her mother, as next friend, with the ultimate purpose of selling real estate for division among tenants in common at private sale. The bill avers that complainant, Alice Estell Higdon, a minor, is the owner of an undivided one-fifth interest in a described lot or parcel of real estate; that named respondents are adult owners of the other four-fifths, interest, each owning an…