Emery v. Emery

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

In February, 1914, Martha Jane Emery was granted a divorce from Elijah E. Emery, and was awarded the custody of their two children, aged five and seven years. The decree, -from which no appeal was taken, included a provision that an eighty-acre tract of land, which had belonged to the husband, should be owned by the children, subject to a life interest in their father., In November, 1915, the father brought an action against the children, the mother also being made a defendant, asking that his title to the land be quieted — that he be…