Utterback v. Meeker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gordon, J.

Plaintiffs brought this action to remove a cloud upon the titles of plaintiffs to their respective pieces of land, caused by a mortgage upon the whole of said land held by the appellants, Ezra M. Meeker and Eliza J. Meeker, husband and wife; also to restrain certain of the defendants from fencing up certain alleged public streets and alleys in the town of Puyallup and interfering with the ingress and egress to and from the several properties of the respondents.

There are thirteen plaintiffs in the case, each claiming to be lawfully in…