Gage v. Bloomington Town Co.

This was an action by the defendant in error in the district court of Franklin county to recover the west half of the southwest quarter of section 31, township 2, range 14 west, in said county. There were named in the petition twenty-three different defendants, of whom Julia M. Zediker and eight others joined in an answer by their attorney, H. Whitmore, and James D. Gage with twelve others joined *700in an answer by E. A. Fletcher, their attorney. These pleadings will for convenience be referred to as the “Gage answer” ánd the “Zediker answer.”

It is alleged, among other things, by the plaintiff…