Darling v. Hippel

This cause was submitted at the December term of the Jackson county court. We have considered the cause, and we now dispose of it.

This case was what is known under our code as real action. The petition is in the usual lorm. The answers contains three defenses: the first sets out that James Henderson Darling, some time in the year 1831 and shortly therealter, claimed some title to or interest in the real estate described in the petition, basing his claim upon what he assumed to be the record of a will claimed to be executed by his father, Timothy Darling, then deceased, and he says the only…