Rice v. Arnold

The defendant in error, as the plaintiff, filed his petition against the plaintiffs in error, as the defendants, to quiet title to certain lands described in the petition in which he alleged the defendants claimed some title or interest.

The defendants filed their answer and cross-petition claiming an interest in the land by virtue of a reservation in a deed executed by them, while they were the owners of the land, to A. C. Newman, through whom, by successive conveyances, the plaintiff received his title to the land.

The interest alleged to have been reserved in the land by the defendants, as…