Case Name: Upon the Petition of Sarah Bonner and Others for Partition
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1808-03
Citations: 3 Tyng 122
Docket Number: 
Parties: Upon the Petition of Sarah Bonner and Others for Partition.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 113–114

Head Matter:
Upon the Petition of Sarah Bonner and Others for Partition.
A petition for partition ought not to include lands lying in different counties.
The petition prayed for partition of two several parcels of land, one of which was described as in the county of Lincoln, and the other in the county of Kennebeclc.

Opinion:
It was observed by the Court, that it would be improper to pro ceed upon the petition. There may be issues of fact joined as to each of the tracts of land, which must be tried in the respective counties wherein the land lies. There ought, therefore, to have been several petitions for the land in each county.
Heard for the petitioners
Such petitions were afterwards presented, and notice ordered returnable at the next terms of the Court in Lincoln and Kennebeck respectively.