Downard v. Hadley

James A. Downard commenced this action against Henry Hadley to recover the possession of forty acres of land in Hendricks county. After the suit had been pending for a time, and various motions, answers and demurrers had been filed, Virinda Keeney and Thomas Keeney were admitted upon their own application as parties defendants. They, in conjunction with the defendant Hadley, set up facts tending to show that the appellant had obtained the title to the land in dispute by means of fraudulent representations, and in violation of his professional duty as an attorney, and they asked that the…