Withroder v. Wiederoder

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action by the plaintiff against his' brother and sister to quiet his title to 80 acres of Reno county land. The defendants filed separate answers and cross petitions in which they prayed to have separate undivided one-fifth interests in the land quieted in them.

Plaintiff prevailed against his sister but failed against his brother. Hence, this appeal and cross appeal, to an understanding of which the material facts, in their least controversial aspects, must be stated at some length.

In 1903 the late Charles and Catherine…