Fowlkes v. White

This litigation arises out of these circumstances:

A suit for the partition of a tract of about 162 acres ■of land was instituted, to which the appellant was made ■one of the defendants, as to whom the allegation was that he claimed or asserted some interest therein. He was called upon to assert and prove the precise nature and extent of the interest therein so claimed. He answered this bill asserting title to an undivided interest therein “which amounts to twenty-three and one-ninth acres,” which he acquired from Peter M. White, whose record title thereto was good.

The cause was then referred…