Sheets v. Bray

— This was an action by the appellees against the appellant, instituted in the Morgan Circuit Court, for the partition of the land described in the complaint. The complaint alleges that each of the appellees and the appellant are the owners as tenants in common of one-eighth of said land, as the only heirs at law of Harris Bray, their father, who died the owner of the same.

The appellant answered, admitting the heirship as alleged in the complaint, but averring that the said Harris Bray, in his lifetime, sold said land to the appellant, and in consideration of her agreement to care for, nurse,…