Brintle v. Wood

Complainants (appellees) filed their bill under the statute to quiet title. Defendant in his answer set up title acquired by purchase at a sale by the register, made in pursuance of a decree of the chancery court rendered in a cause to which complainants were parties ordering a sale of the property for division among the heirs at law of Nelson Wilson, deceased. There were numerous heirs, eighteen, and the record of the cause in which the sale was decreed purported to be the record of a cause to which all the heirs of Nelson Wilson were parties complainant or defendant. But complainants in…