Davidson v. Blackwood

SIMPSON, Justice.

The original bill was to quiet title to land and conformed to the statute in all of the requisite allegations, including the averment that the plaintiff was in the peaceable possession of the property. The amended bill, setting forth the quo modo of the complaint, on which the relief was sought to be rested, did not detract from this general allegation by averring certain past acts of the defendant and his predecessors in title which indicated a possible interference with the previous, peaceable possession of the land. The character of previous possession is not the concern…