Litch v. Bryant

The appellee brought this action on the 6th day of March, 1905, to quiet her title to certain lots in the town of Atwood. The complaint was in the usual form. The amended answer of the defendants,- who are appellants here, consisted of two parts. The first was a denial of the ownership of the plaintiff. As each defense must be complete in itself, this was insufficient as a defense in such an action.—Mitchell v. Knott, 43 Colo. 135, 139.

The second part was what the defendants called a cross-complaint. In this cross-complaint it is alleged that defendants, in different interests, are the *161owners…