Wright v. Dick

The plaintiffs, Dick and Taylor, claiming to be the joint owners of an undivided two-thirds of a particularly described eighty-acre tract of land in Huntington county, and alleging that the defendant, Marshall Wright, was the owner and in possession of the other undivided one-third of the same tract, commenced suit for partition, and to correct an alleged clerical mistake in their deed. The defendant presented various defences by way of answer to the complaint, and he also filed a cross-complaint, in which he claimed title to the entire tract of land. After setting out the facts in detail…