Piper v. Piper

The opinion, of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

In a suit brought by Arch Piper, as guardian for Priscilla J. Lanham, a person of unsound mind, against John F. Piper and Angeline Summers, he alleged that Mrs. Lanham was the. owner of an undivided one-fourth interest in a half-section of land formerly owned by John F. Piper,1 sr., father of Mrs. Lanham and the defendants. In one count he asked for the possession of the land, for $500 as damages for being kept out of possession, and for rents and profits. In another count the plaintiff stated the way in which his ward derived her…