Chiles v. Bowyer

Kelly, R,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal involves the title to an undivided one-half interest in a tract of about 217 acres of land situate in Botetourt county. The litigation in its present form came about in the following manner:

G. P. Chiles, who is the appellant here, claiming to be *251the owner of the whole tract, except two small undivided interests, brought a suit for partition against the alleged-owners of those two interests. J. W. Bowyer and others, the appellees here, notified Chiles that they claimed an undivided one-half interest in the whole tract, and requested that…