Shaw v. Beers

Proceedings for partition upon the petition of the appellee, claiming as the widow of Andrew Beers, who died intestate seized of the fee. The court found that the appellee, as a second wife, by whom the intestate left no child, was. entitled to one-third-of the property for life; and that •the appellants, as the children and grantees of children by the first wife, were entitled to the fee of the property, subject to •the life-estate of the appellee; and finding further, that the property was incapable of partition, ordered a sale and division of the proceeds.

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