Reay v. Butler

The Court.

Appeal from an order of the superior court, by Mabel Treadwell, executrix of the will of J. P. Treadwell, deceased, denying appellant’s motion to strike out (or, in the alternative, to retax) a cost bill filed by plaintiff.

In 1866 the plaintiff, Eeay, commenced an action of ejectment against Butler and Owens to recover the possession of a tract of “outside lands” known as “Speck ranch.” J. P. Treadwell, appellant’s testator, filed an intervention in said action, alleging, in substance, that he was the owner and in possession of said ranch; that the defendants, Owens and Butler, were…