Sanford v. Ainsa

This was a suit to recover possession of land conveyed by the father of the appellants to them, pending a prior suit prosecuted by the appellee to quiet title in a tract of which this land was part. Richardson v. Ainsa, 218 U. S. 289. The plaintiff (appellee) got a judgment for possession and damages and the defendant took the case to the Supreme Court of the Territory.

The errors assigned before that court seem to have been first, the refusal of the court below to strike out a paragraph of the complaint that set up the decree in the former suit, the defendant contending that it appeared on…