Robertson v. Robertson

The parties to this motion are brothers, who with their seven brothers and sisters inherited a tract of land in Giles county from their father. Eltie Robertson, the plaintiff, acquired the undivided interests of two of the other heirs at law, and thus became the owner of three-ninths of the entire tract. Then there was a .suit for partition, and by common consent the one-ninth thereof which belonged to Lawson Robertson, one of the brothers, (who had left the State and had not been heard from for several years), was included in one parcel with the three-ninths which belonged to and was…