Jordan v. Ellis

COLEMAN, Justice.

Respondents appeal from decree granting prayer that one hundred twenty acres of land be sold for division of proceeds among tenants in common and denying respondents’ prayer for an accounting.

The case presents the unhappy aspect of a lawsuit with a mother on one side and her eight children on the other.

The mother, who is complainant, and her husband owned the land in equal shares when husband died in 1946. Four of the children were minors at that time. The land was mortgaged. The mother continued to live on the land, made payments on the mortgage, and reared the minor…