SNYDER vs. TOMLINSON
SNYDER HEIRS vs. WILLIAM TOMLINSON - Law Suit for land
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 12 Jan 1910
The case of WIlliam Snyder et al vs. William Tomlinson is being tried in the circuit court. Judge Henry H. Vinton of the Lafayette superior court is acting as special judge in the matter. It is an action in which the plaintiffs who are the heirs of Aaron Snyder seek to have deeds made about 1864 reformed and if that is done ask the partition of real estate not in the possession of the defendant. When Aaron Snyder died years ago he left a farm of 80 acres north of this city. Besides the widow five children survived. Mrs. Snyder married William Tomlinson about a year afterward and he was appointed guardian of the minor heirs of Aaron Snyder. The farm of 80 acres descended to the widow and the 5 children, the former getting 1/3 of the farm and the five heirs 1/5 each of the remainder. The plaintiffs allege that as they became of age they signed deeds conveying their undivided 1/5 of the 2/3 of the farm to William Tonlinson or at least they say that is what they thought they did. Two years ago their mother died and it was then that William Snyder, John Snyder, Samuel C. Snyder and Mrs. Martha Eva Lofland and her children and Mrs. Nellie Hitch and Mrs. Mary Drury joined in asking for the one-third of the farm left Mrs. Tomlinson by their father, Aaron Snyder. This the present owner and defendant in this action refused to give them. Thomas & Foley, Kennedy & Kennedy and Henry D. Vancleave appear for the heirs and MW Bruner the defendant.