Derry v. Derry

Colerick, C.

This action was brought by the appellee against the appellants for the partition of certain real estate in Hancock county, Indiana. The complaint, in substance, averred that one Jeremiah Derry died intestate, seized of the land in controversy, leaving surviving him, as his only heirs at law, the appellee, who is his widow, and the appellants, who are his children and grandchildren; that the appellee, as such widow, was the owner of the one undivided third part of said land, and that the other two-thirds were owned by the appellants in certain specified shares! Wherefore she prayed…