Taylor v. Taylor

KANNER, Chief Judge.

The chancellor issued final decree declaring appellees to be the owners in fee simple of the lands set forth in appellants’ complaint. Appellants sought partition of all the lands, asserting title as co-tenants to an undivided three-fifths. The appeal emanates from the adverse decision refusing to recognize appellants as co-parceners and to grant decree of partition of the lands. No brief was filed by the appellees.

The following factual situation as gleaned from the record presents the background of this controversy.

One Jerry Taylor died intestate in the year 1928,…