Shinn v. Shinn

Woods,» Judge:

A bill was filed in this cause praying for a partition of some 900 acres of land alleged to be held by plaintiff and defendant as tenants in common. The defendant, a. brother of plaintiff, filed an answer in the nature of a cross-bill denying that the parties were tenants in common or joint owners thereof, but alleging that the said real estate was owned by them as partners, and that the same constituted a part of the partnership assets under their partnership agreement; that the parties had in 1886 entered into a partnership for buying and selling lands, of farming said lands,…