Hill v. Brown

George Rose Smith, Justice.

J. H. Brown brought this suit in 1982 to obtain partition of a 55-acre tract of land in Saline County. The complaint alleged that Brown and Dr. Harlan H. Hill owned the land as tenants in common at the time of Dr. Hill’s death in 1965, that Mrs. Hill received her husband’s half interest under his will, and that Brown was entitled to partition. Mrs. Hill’s answer denied that Brown had any interest in the land and asserted title in Mrs. Hill by adverse possession and by reason of Dr. Hill’s having acquired whatever interest Brown had had in the property.

Upon trial the…