Schrank v. Meade

TEIGEN, Chief Justice (On reassignment) .

This is an appeal by the defendant, James Uhler, Jr., from a judgment determining that fee title to certain lands is vested equally in seven persons, including the plaintiff and the appealing defendant, and ordering a sale thereof in partition. It is the contention of the defendant who takes this appeal that he is the owner in fee simple of part of the lands involved in the action. The case was tried to the court. A trial de novo is demanded in this Court.

The action was brought by the plaintiff for the partition of 520 acres of real estate. The…