Legal Opinion

Derry v. Derry

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1881No. 7985PublishedCited by 17 opinions

From the Hancock Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

Bicknell, C.

This was a suit by the appellee for partition. The complaint avers that Jeremiah Deny died intestate, seized of the land in controversy, leaving, him surviving,, his widow, the appellee, their child Emma J. Derry, several children by a former marriage, and several grandchildren. These children by the former marriage and these grandchildren are the appellants.

The. complaint states that the appellee, as such widow, is the owner in fee of one undivided third part of said land,, and that the other two thirds are owned in fee by the appellants in certain specified shares.

The appellants…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Hollingsworth Magniac v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1833
  2. May v. FletcherIndiana Supreme Court · 1872
  3. Bowen v. PrestonIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
  4. Unfried v. HebererIndiana Supreme Court · 1878
  5. Glidewell v. SpaughIndiana Supreme Court · 1866

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Nelson v. BrownSupreme Court of Alabama · 1910
  2. Haggerty v. WagnerIndiana Supreme Court · 1897
  3. Grissom v. MooreIndiana Supreme Court · 1886
  4. Union State Bank v. WilliamsIndiana Court of Appeals · 1976
  5. Robertson v. HuffmanIndiana Supreme Court · 1883

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