Mueller v. Jackson

The complaint was the ordinary one in an action under the statute to determine adverse claims to real property in the actual possession of the plaintiffs. The answer alleged title in the defendants, and demanded judgment for the possession; being thus, in effect, a complaint in ejectment. Eastman v. Linn, 20 Minn. 387, (433.) The reply alleged facts entitling the plaintiffs to compensation for improvements, etc., under the “occupying claimants’ act,” in case the title should be found in defendants. The plaintiffs, in their ease in chief, to prove title in themselves, (which was the only…