Hall v. Durham

Some time previous to the September term, 1884, of the Montgomery Circuit Court, William IT. Durham, the appellee in this case, commenced an action in that court against John R. Hall and Margery Hall, the appellants in this appeal, to quiet his title to a tract of land in Montgomery county.

At the term of court above named, the defendants in that action failed to appear, and, it being shown that summons-*435had been served upon them more than ten days before the first day of the term, a judgment quieting the plaintiff’s title to the land described in his complaint was entered against the…