Harness v. Hughett

The complainants filed the present hill as heirs at law of Thomas Harness, who died intestate in Scott county, in this State, in February, 1893, against the defendants John Hughett and Jerry ' Harness, ashing that deeds which were executed to these two defendants1 in 1898 by the clerk of the circuit court of that county to certain real estate, of which the ancestor of the complainants died seized and possessed, should be set aside as a cloud upon their title, upon the ground, as alleged by them, that the court, under whose orders this clerk was acting in the execution of these deeds, was…