Erickson v. Crosby

This is an action to quiet in plaintiff title to the north half of the northwest quarter of section 25, township 3, range 13 west, in Franklin county. The title was in Ruth Fay Stull, who died September 28, 1898. She had devised the land to her mother. In 1894 the latter adopted plaintiff. The devisee died before testatrix. The will was probated, and it seems to have been assumed by those interested that plaintiff succeeded to the rights of the devisee. Rev. St. 1913, sec. 1314. Desiring to sell the land, plaintiff commenced this suit against David Stevens, a brother of testatrix. After the…