Austin v. Moore

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

In May, 1918, the appellee, Mrs. OnoIda Moore, filed this action against the appellant, Bessie Austin, and E. L. Moore, alleging that she was the owner and in possession of a certain tract of land and seeking to have her title quieted and as an incident thereto to have declared void a deed under which Bessie Austin was asserting title.

The defendant, E. L. Moore, who is the husband of the plaintiff and father of the defendant, filed a separate answer in which he acknowledged the truth of the avermeu.ts of the petition charging that as agent of the…