Palmerton v. Hoop

The complaint in this cause consists of three paragraphs.

The first paragraph consists of the ordinary complaint for the recovery of the possession of real estate.

The second paragraph alleges that the appellants are the owners in fee, and entitled to the possession, of the three-fifths of the land described therein ; that they are the heirs at law of Francis M. Palmerton, who died in the year 1872; that, said Francis was the son and heir of Homer Palmerton, who died in the year 1870 seized in fee of the land described in the complaint, with other lands in Shelby county, one-fifth of which…