Crowley v. Byrne
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Jefferson county, Still, J., entered February 5, 1912, dismissing an action to quiet title and for partition, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
This is, in substance, an action to quiet title in plaintiff to an undivided one-half interest in a tract of unoccupied land in Jefferson county, and to obtain partition of the land between the plaintiff and the defendants; though counsel for the defendants seem to proceed upon the theory that it is strictly an action to remove a cloud from plaintiff’s title to the land and to obtain partition thereof. The trial court sustained the defendants’ demurrer to the plaintiff’s third amended complaint, upon the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. Judgment…
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