Reynolds v. Cobb

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

This equity action to quiet title was filed in the Clay circuit court by appellants, William Reynolds and wife, Lucy Reynolds, as plaintiffs, against appellee, William Cobb, Jr., as defendant, in which plaintiffs claimed title to about 25 acres of land in Clay County, but which defendant denied and counterclaimed by asserting title thereto in himself. Among other contentions each party relied on prior adjudications between former owners through whom they claimed as res adjudicata estoppels, and which were in addition to their assertions of title…