Bell v. Shaffer

Suit for partition by appellees against appellants, the former claiming to be the owners in fee of the undivided one-third of Jot number forty-four, in Sorin’s subdivision, etc., in the city of Indianapolis, and State of Indiana. The defendants answered in four paragraphs, the first being a general denial, and the second, third, and fourth setting up the defenses of an estoppel by matter of record, by matter in pais, and the statutes of limitations of five, fifteen, and twenty years. Reply in denial. The appellant, Joseph E. Bell, filed his separate cross-complaint against the appellees,…