Ward v. Ward

This is a partition proceeding. Both of the plaintiffs in error were defendants in the court below, one interested as an heir of an intestate and the other as assignee of a lessee of certain coal lands. Both were defaulted, and neither objected to the report of the commissioners appointed by the court to divide the lands, or to set off dower and value the lands if the same could not be divided. They did except to the approval of the report of sale on the ground that the sale was en masse and not in accordance with the notice; that a part of the property sold for less than two-thirds of its…