Quinn v. Hannon

GOODWYN, Justice.

Appellants, complainants and cross-respondents below, filed a bill in equity ¿gainst appellee, respondent and cross-complainant below, seeking to quiet title to an eighty acre tract of “wild land” located in St. Clair County. The bill avers that “complainants are the owners” of said land and “are in quiet and peaceable possession of same”; that “respondent is reputed to claim some right, title, interest, lien, claim or encumbrance in, upon or to the said real estate”; and that “no suit is pending to test the validity of the respondent’s said claim.” The respondent is called…