Ward v. Parkford

The plaintiff commenced an action to quiet title against a large number of defendants. One of the defendants, E. A. Parksford, appeared and answered. In his answer he denied the material allegations of the plaintiff’s complaint and set forth a special defense in which he pleaded certain facts which he claimed would constitute an equitable estoppel that would preclude the plaintiff from any recovery. Still later the defendant Parkford filed a cross-complaint. The plaintiff answered the cross-complaint and a trial was had in the trial court on all of the issues so made by the pleadings. The…