Neal v. Baker

Appellee, the plaintiff below, commenced an action for specific performance of a contract alleged to have been made by the ancestor of appellants, the defendants below, to convey to her a certain described quarter section of land in Knox county, Indiana. She afterward filed a second paragraph alleging substantially the same facts that had been alleged in the original complaint, except for the substitution in the second paragraph of an averment that, by reason of being the heirs of Caroline Haper, the defendants “are claiming to be the owners of said described real estate,” in place of an…