Denney v. Abbott

*500Opinion op the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Affirming on original and cross appeals.

About seventy-five years ago Thomas Hurt procured title to several tracts of land lying in Wayne County. These tracts were covered by patents issued in the early, part of the nineteenth century. Thomas Hurt died and left surviving* him fourteen children, to whom the title descended. Granville C. Keeton married one of Thomas Hurt’s daughters, who owned an undivided one-fourteenth interest. About forty years ago, Keeton purchased the interests of nine of the other children. Thus he and his wife…