Miller v. Sutherland

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON:

Respondent brought this action to quiet title to certain de scribed real property. By answer appellant denied tbe allegations of the complaint except that respondent was the owner and in possession of the real estate, and alleged that appellant asserted an inchoate right of dower in the real property because she was the wife of the respondent. In addition, the answer sets up a cross-complaint containing two causes of action; first that the appellant was the common-law wife of the respondent; and second that respondent and appellant had entered into an agreement by…