Pearce v. Coogle

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s petition in an action under section 518 of the Civil Code of Practice seeking the vacation of a judgment and a new trial in a case in which the title to certain land had been quieted.

The original action was brought by S. H. Pearce against Otto Coogle and John McGfuffin to quiet the title to 15 acres of land in Hardin county. The dispute involved the location of the dividing line between the lands of the plaintiff and the defendants. On June 27, 1942, a judgment was entered quieting the…