Burke v. Stiles

The plaintiffs claim a reconveyance of land, and a surrender of promissory notes given for land conveyed to them by the defendant Augusta M. Stiles, to which they claim the title has wholly or partially failed. The defendant Stiles claims title under the will of her father, Benjamin G. Davis. The other defendants are heirs and legatees of Alice P. Davis, wife of Benjamin G. Davis, who in her lifetime, and at her death, owned a part of the land the title to which is in controversy, and a mortgage of the other part owned by her husband. By her will she devised and bequeathed all the remainder…