Sanders v. Flenniken

Hart, C. J.,

(after stating the facts). Appellants brought this suit in equity, and asked that certain conveyances by appellees be canceled as clouds upon their title. Such a suit is of purely equitable cognizance, although appellants ask that the title to the land be also declared in themselves, and that they have possession under their claim of title.

Appellees pleaded in bar of the recovery of the land by appellants that they were guilty of laches. The doctrine of laches is entirely a defense in equity, and, if the facts justified it, constituted a bar to the right of appellants to the…