Joyce v. Hamilton

Complaint by Mary B. Joyce and John F. Joyce, her husband, against Martha J. Hamilton and Rebecca Hamilton, to quiet title to a tract of land in Rush county.

The complaint was in four paragraphs, but the first and second were withdrawn before the cause was tried. The third paragraph averred that the plaintiff Mary B. Joyce was the daughter of one Francis M. Hamilton, who had died testate; that in May, 1880, the decedent was the owner of the land in controversy, particularly describing it, and that he then gave it to her, the said Mary B. Joyce, as an advancement out of his estate; that soon…