Dugas v. Hammond

1-4. Emily C. Hammond brought complaint for land against Lucretia R. Dugas. The petition was framed after the .statutory form of complaint for land, though not in its exact form. The pleader separated the petition into paragraphs, which' *88were consecutively numbered. The defendant failed to answer the paragraph which asserted that “petitioner claims, title to said land under a deed and under the' abstract of title hereto annexed marked Exhibit A.” Exhibit A was but an abstract of four deeds, the first executed in 1880. The plaintiff ■ was the grantee in the last deed. No ¡Dossession in any of…