Short v. Patton

Poffenbarger, Judge:

The decree appealed from, pronounced in a partition suit, involves a contest between a brother and a sister, concerning the title of a tract' of land of which the latter claims their father died siezed and possessed. Her assertion of a one third interest in the land, as an heir of her father, is resisted by the brother, upon the theory of a parol purchase by him, of a portion of the land from their father, and of a like purchase of the residue, from another person. The heirs are three in number, one son and two daughters. One of the daughters brought this suit, making her…