Wells v. Smith

Appellee, Mrs. E. G-. Smith, filed suit in the chancery court for the eastern district of Lawrence county to partition eighty acres of land described as the N% of the NE14 of section 16, tp. 16 north, range 1 west, in which she claimed to be the owner of an undivided three-fourths interest and that appellant, Ottice Wells, is the owner of an undivided one-fourth interest.'

To the complaint of appellee, appellant filed answer in which the material allegations are: That for many years his grandmother, Mrs. Laura E. Campbell, was the owner of the lands in question; that prior to her death she…