Buser v. Shepard

The complaint in this case was in two paragraphs. The first presented an ordinary action for the partition of real estate, and for an accounting for rents and profits by the tenant in possession.

The plaintiff set up that she acquired her interest in the property by virtue of her marital relation with her husband, Jacob N. Buser, who formerly owned the land,.and whose interest had been transferred under a judicial sale, through mesne conveyances, to the defendant Shepard. Her claim was, that upon the sale of her husband's two-thirds interest, she became vested with an estate in fee simple in…