Cosby v. Powers

The appellants sued to set aside a decree of foreclosure and a sale of real estate under such decree.

It was alleged that the complaint in the foreclosure proceeding was in two paragraphs.

The first paragraph is not set out in the complaint before us, and its only alleged defect was in failing to name, in the body thereof, these appellants, though it does appear that they were named in the title of the action, as stated in the introductory portion or caption.

The second paragraph described the land only by reference to the first paragraph, and alleged an adverse claim, by the appellants, of the…