Casey v. Kelley

SPEER, Justice.

Joe W. Casey and twenty-one others, as plaintiffs, sued Earl Kelley and eight others, as defendants, for partition of 576 acres of land, and as against one of the defendants, J. H. Nix, as executor of the estate of Mary Casey, deceased, under her will, for an accounting of personal property amounting to $12,000, alleged to have been converted by Mary Casey, during her lifetime.

Parties will be referred to as plaintiffs and defendants as they were designated in the trial court. Trial was to the court without a jury; judgment was entered against plaintiffs, and they have appealed.…