Wheelock v. Lake

This is an action of ejectment. The cause was tried before the court without a jury, and findings of fact and law made. The claim of the plaintiff is that in March, 1885, the title to the land rested in Ann Wheel-. ock, who died intestate March 12, 1885, leaving surviving her seven children; that at that time the plaintiff was 9 years of age, and, as heir at law, entitled to one-seventh interest in the land. She is now 21 years old, and asserts her title to the seventh interest. On the part of the defendants it is claimed that the premises were sold in 1886, at administrator’s sale, to…