Clark v. Spruens

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal which questions the propriety of rendering a judgment for default of an answer.

Plaintiff’s petition was to quiet his title to 60 acres of land. He alleged that the defendant and his wife induced him to place his mark on a blank form of deed which they afterwards filled out, and-that he was induced to do so through false and fraudulent representations by them that he was “about to be blackmailed by certain parties who designed to rob him of 60 acres of land,” etc.

Defendant filed a motion to make plaintiff’s petition more…