Winterburn v. Chambers

The plaintiffs seek, in this action, partition of a tract of land which belonged to their mother, of which they allege that the defendants are tenants in common with them by reason of conveyances from other heirs of their mother. The land in controversy belonged to Josefa Soto de Stokes, who died intestate September 18, 1855, leaving a husband, James Stokes, and fourteen children surviving her. An act of the legislature was passed March 25, 1857, authorizing her administrator to sell her real estate subject to the approval of the probate court of Monterey County, in which the administration…