Bates v. Hanks

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a suit for partition of land, entered upon what it recites was a default on the part of the defendants.

What Was Done.

November 17, 1932, appellees, whom we shall refer to as plaintiffs, filed a petition for the partition of a tract of land supposed to contain 350 acres, of which they alleged one-ninth belonged to plaintiff Alice Hanks, as a daughter of the intestate, Wm. Pig-man, Sr., and one-ninth to the plaintiffs Monroe Amburgey and Virgie Young, as the only children of Jane Amburgey, who was a…