McKelvey v. McKelvey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This appeal involves an allowance for improvements in distributing the proceeds of the sale of lands made in a proceeding in partition. The rights and ownership of the several contending parties in the tract of land were determined in McKelvey v. McKelvey, 79 Kan. 82. In pursuance of the mandate in that case judgment was rendered awarding four-eighths of the tract to John A. McKelvey (he having acquired the shares of the other children), three-eights of it was awarded to Anna K. McKelvey, and one-eighth to I. O. Pickering. As partition…