Shambow v. Shambow

ADAMS, J.:

Suit for partition was 'filed by four of the five children of Mary L. Shambow against the fifth to divide the home place of the mother. The chancellor held that Mary L. Shambow was not the head of a family.

In 1927 the property was vested in Mary L. Shambow and her husband, Levi Shambow, in an estate by the entireties, at which time the husband died. The survivor continued to make her home on the property alone. All five children re sided outside the State. The mother was aged and infirm and procured her son, the appellee, to come and live with her.

Appellee abandoned his home and…