Case ID: ind_125/html/0597-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Elliott, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 15,312.
    Hawkins et al. v. McDougal.
    
      Pabtition. — Tenants in Common of Life-Estate. — Tenants in common of a life-estate in land may maintain a suit for partition.
    From the Martin Circuit Court.
    
      A. J. Padgett and A. Paget, for appellants.
    
      J. H. O’Neall, W. R. Gardiner and S. H. Taylor, for appellee.
    
      Filed Nov. 12, 1890.
   Elliott, J.

— The only question presented by this record is, whether tenants in common of a life-estate in land can maintain a suit for partition.

In equity, and at law, it has always been held that tenants in common of a life-estate in land may have compulsory partition. Freeman Co-Tenancy and Partition, section 455. Our statute has not changed this rule. Shaw v. Beers, 84 Ind. 528; Swain v. Hardin, 64 Ind. 85 ; Russell v. Russell, 48 Ind. 456; Longlois v. Longlois, 48 Ind. 60.

Judgment affirmed.