Morris v. Edmonds

Appellees, who are infants, sued by their next friend for the possession of lands which they claimed as heir at law o± their deceased mother. Appellant answered denying the allegations of title as to one forty acre tract and asserted title to it in himself. He admitted that the other lands had been conveyed by the party having the paper title to appellees’ mother, but undertook to set up an equitable title or right in himself. The answer was made a counter claim, the case transferred to the equity side of the docket and submitted, without a reply to the counter claim, on the complaint, answer…