Smith v. Tucker

The plaintiffs in error, Sarah A. Smith and Nannie Jeffers, filed their bill in chancery in the circuit court of Pope county alleging that they are the owners in fee simple, as tenants in common, of a tract of land described therein and containing 120 acres and are entitled to the possession thereof ; that defendants in error, William Tucker and Daniel Tucker, are in the possession of said land but have never had any interest in the same except an estate for the life of Sarah J. Keel, the mother of plaintiffs in error, in an undivided one-half thereof, which was acquired by mesne conveyances…