Ruth & King v. Ford
Supreme Court of Kansas
Ei-ror from Douglas District Court. Tiijb action below was commenced by Isaac M. Ruth against George Ford, Rachael H. Ford, Witter S. McCurdy, Gurdon Grovenor, and Wyllys King. The object of the action was to establish Ruth’s title to the undivided half of a certain thirty-acre tract of land. King answered, and by a cross-petition against his co-defendants set up title in himself to the undivided half of twenty acres of said land.
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Ei-ror from Douglas District Court. Tiijb action below was commenced by Isaac M. Ruth against George Ford, Rachael H. Ford, Witter S. McCurdy, Gurdon Grovenor, and Wyllys King. The object of the action was to establish Ruth’s title to the undivided half of a certain thirty-acre tract of land. King answered, and by a cross-petition against his co-defendants set up title in himself to the undivided half of twenty acres of said land. Both Ruth and King alleged that by reason of certain deeds of conveyance the legal title to said lands was in the other defendants, and that said deeds were…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This was an action brought by the plaintiff in error, Isaac M. Ruth, for the purpose of having certain deeds of conveyance declared fraudulent and void, and to have determined who was the owner in law and equity of a certain piece of land covered by said deeds. The whole tract consisted of forty acres, but only the west three-fourths was in dispute. The action was tried by a referee, and the report of the referee and the judgment of the court gave the west ten acres of said tract to said Ruth, and the middle twenty acres to Gurdon…
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