Farmer v. Littlefield

When Ben C. Simes, Sr. died in January 1945 he owned real estate in Clinton which he devised, as a part of his residuary estate, to Lorraine Littlefield, Mildred S. Wilson, Ben C. Simes, Jr., Ben C. Farmer, William C. Farmer, Wallace E. Farmer, Jr. and Jane Schmitt. Wallace E. Farmer, Jr. acquired the one-sixteenth interests of Ben C. and William C. Farmer. After the will [658] had been admitted to probate Wallace E. Farmer, Jr. brought this action in partition against the other tenants in common. Among other things, Wallace E. Farmer, Jr. alleged that on April 8, 1944 Ben C. Simes, Sr. had…