Douglass v. Nuzum
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Jefferson District Court. Action by Nuzum against Douglass and two others, to quiet his title to the S.E.J of sec. 28, township 7, range 18, in Jefferson county. The answers of the defendants, and the proceedings in the district court, sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Error from, Jefferson District Court. Action by Nuzum against Douglass and two others, to quiet his title to the S.E.J of sec. 28, township 7, range 18, in Jefferson county. The answers of the defendants, and the proceedings in the district court, sufficiently appear in the opinion. The district court, at the May Term 1873, gave judgment in favor of Nuzum,.as prayed for in his petition, and Douglass brings the case here for review. for himself, among other propositions contended, that Nuzum’s petition was fatally defective. In support of the proposition, that the petition should set forth the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
Defendant in error brought his action in the district court of Jefferson county for the purpose of quieting his title to certain premises. He filed a petition making plaintiff in error, Patrick M. Lyon and S. S. Cooper defendants, in which he alleged that he was the owner and held the legal title to the premises, that they were unimproved and unoccupied by any one, and that the defendants were “setting up and claiming some estate and interest in and to said real estate adverse to his estate and interest.” The prayer was, that the defendants…
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