Penny v. Penny

SIMPSON, Justice.

The original bill seeks a sale of land for division among tenants in common. .

Alice Penny and Savannah Craig, mother and daughter respectively, were the joint owners of a lot of land in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, until the latter’s death in 1924, after which Savannah’s one-half interest descended to her legal heirs. During the cotenancy of the two, Alice constructed some dwelling houses upon the property, lived in one of them, and Savannah in another until Savannah’s death, after which her said heirs lived on the property.

One of the houses was destroyed by fire and thereafter, in…