Hicks v. Hicks

Mb. Chibe Justice Gbeen

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case is before us on petition for certiorari to the Court of Appeals. The bill was filed to recover possession of a tract of land and to have the same partitioned among the complainants and the defendants, the allegation being that the complainants and all of the defendants save one owned the land as tenants in common. The defendants denied that complainants had any interest in the land, and the answer averred that certain of defendants had been in possession of the land for a number of years,- the truth of the latter statement,…