Culbertson v. Munson

The plaintiffs brought this action to quiet title to a certain one hundred and sixty acre tract of land in Marshall county.

The defendants, after filing a general denial to the complaint, filed a cross complaint in two paragraphs, in both of which they sought to quiet the title to the same land in themselves.

In the first paragraph of the cross complaint, it was averred that the cross complainants were the owners, and in possession of the land described, and that the plaintiffs were asserting an unfounded title to it.

The second paragraph rested the right of the cross complainants specifically…