Newsom v. Johnson

SIMS, Chief Justice.

Henry Newsom died intestate in 1917 the owner of a mountain farm of 150 acres in Pike County. He was survived by a widow and twelve children, two by his first wife and ten by his widow. The widow died before this action was instituted, as did one of his sons, Thomas Newsom, who died in 1919, intestate, single and without issue and while under 21 years of age. Several of the heirs sold their undivided interest in this farm to other heirs.

In 1950 Sarah Newson Johnson and her husband, Lawrence, who claim to own jointly 4½40 undivided interests in the farm and Sarah Newsom…