Dodsworth v. Hopple

In the original action, brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county, R. B. Hopple and others were plaintiffs, and C. Dodsworth was defendant. The action was brought to recover possession of real property. The plaintiffs averred in their petition that they were the owners of the land and entitled to the possession thereof.

The defendant in his answer took issue on the averments of the petition ; and, by way of cross-petition, set up a state of facts, upon which he claimed that he was in equity entitled to a conveyance of the land in dispute from the plaintiffs, and prayed that they…