Cooper v. Buxton

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment rendered against them upon demurrer to their complaint. The complaint is somewhat long, but the facts shown by it material for a decision of the case may be rather briefly stated.

One Buxton died possessed of certain real estate. The defendant is his surviving wife and the plaintiffs are his children by a former marriage. Not very long before his death he had caused his real estate to be registered under the “Land Title Law,” or Torrens Act. (Stats. 1915, p. 1932, Deering’s Gen. Laws, Act 1049.) His wife, the defendant, joined him in the…