Apple v. Apple

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Hancock Circuit Court granting summary judgment for the defendant-Appellees, and thereby quieting title to the contested tract of land in the Appellees.

The quiet title suit was a collateral attack by Appellants upon an earlier judgment of the same Court entered in 1928, whereby the Court approved a compromise agreement and upheld the validity of the Last Will of Mary Edna Addison, deceased grandmother of Mary Rose Apple (Simmons). Contemporaneously with entry of judgment upholding the validity of the Will, the trustee and executor jointly executed a…