Potts v. Rader

James Sheppard owned Sheppard Island plantation, in Jefferson County, when he died in 1870. His will directed his two executors to sell the property and divide the proceeds equally among his widow and children. This direction was not followed; instead, in 1876 one of the executors conveyed the property to the widow and children. The validity of the deed was not questioned for more than sixty years. The land has since been devised by various subsequent wills to its present owners.

In 1937 Lisa Shinberger, owning an undivided one-third interest, and the personal representatives of two decedents…