Bergfield v. Bergfield

Rhoades, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, Lewis H. Bergfield and Viola Bergfield, herein designated as appellants, commenced this action against their brother, Charles Bergfield and other children and grandchildren of their mother Henrietta Bergfield, who died intestate December 28, 1929, the prayer of their petition being for partition of an 80-acre farm of which their mother held the record title at the time of her death.

The defendant, Charles Bergfield, herein designated as appellee, answered admitting the relationship of the parties, and generally denying the other allegations of the…