Siler v. Carpenter

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

*641This controversy arises over the ownership of an interest in a tract of land. Ewell Lawson, in 1888, died intestate, the owner of a tract of land containing about 200 acres, in Whitley County, and leaving a widow, Nancy (who afterward married Calvin Pennington), and seven children. Three of the children, Mecca, Ellen and Alice, died within a few years of each other, all infants. It is conceded that Mecca’s one-seventh inherited by her from her father descended to her surviving brothers and sisters; that the one-seventh inherited by Ellen from her…