Peak v. Laughlin

This is a suit in equity, brought to set aside the judgment and proceedings in a partition suit to which the plaintiffs were not parties. The plaintiffs, however, claim to hold an individual interest in the lands embraced in the partition suit, and allege that the proceedings and judgment therein were fraudulent and void, and on that ground seek to have them set aside and held for naught. That seems to be the substance and result of the petition, although it is greatly overloaded with irrelevant and superfluous matter.

The Circuit Court sustained a demurrer to the petition, and we are asked to…