Ford v. Willits

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.:

Plaintiffs, J. M. Ford, II, and the First National Bank of St. Joseph, as co-trustees of the Albert L. Bartlett trust, sought to quiet title to the trust’s undivided one-fourth mineral interest in Jefferson County land which had been sold at a tax foreclosure sale to defendant Russell W. Willits some seven years earlier. Plaintiffs appeal from summary judgment entered against them in Jefferson District Court. Defendant Willits cross-appeals from dismissal of his third-party petition against the Board of Jefferson County Commissioners and the…