Wilder v. Lee

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sims

Reversing.

Appellee, John M. Lee, filed a petition in equity against appellant, Grant Wilder, in the Bell Circuit Court in which he averred that he was the owner in fee and in the actual possession of a tract of land which his pleading described by metes and bounds but did not give the number of acres; that Wilder was claiming the land and Lee asked that his title be quieted against Wilder’s claim. The answer, after traversing the averments of the petition, described a boundary of 150 acres as belonging to Wilder and alleged that the land set out in the…