Belafsky v. Litterst

The bill, in effect, is one to quiet title and may be maintained as such, although inartistically drawn. The bill sets out in detail the complainant's chain of title and recites a judgment of the defendant against which relief is sought. As the answer and agreed state of facts supply the missing jurisdictional allegations in the bill the pleadings will be considered as amended (the court having the right to revamp the pleadings) and the issue disposed of.

One Horowitz conveyed the premises described in the bill of complaint to Litterst as security against endorsements of Horowitz's notes which…