Farrington v. Jacobs

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Alleging that the defendants were laying wrongful claim to .the property under a deed from the administratrix of the estate of Fannie Thomas, deceased, plaintiffs, as heirs of Fannie Thomas, brought this suit for a decree cancelling the deed, quieting them in the possession of, and title to, the property, awarding .them the rents and profits therefrom and determining that the estate was not indebted to defendants. The claim was that the defendant, Farrington, designing and intending to acquire the title to it, had wrongfully caused, administration proceedings to be…