Fadler v. Gabbert

The question for decision in this case is whether the Circuit Court of Jackson County at Kansas City rightly overruled the separate demurrers to plaintiffs' amended petition, filed by two groups of defendants. Final judgment in favor of plaintiffs was entered, defendants having stood on their demurrers and declined to plead further. From this judgment defendants took two separate appeals which will be decided together.

Plaintiffs sued in equity to have avoided for fraud in their procurement two decrees, one in a suit to quiet title, the other in an action for partition, and also to have…