Legal Opinion

Knaggs v. Mastin

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 15, 1872PublishedCited by 33 opinions

Error from Johnson District Court. On the 15th of December 1870 Susan Knaggs, and A. E[. Knaggs her husband, brought their action against Mastín, praying that a certain paper purporting to be a deed be adjudged and decreed to be null and void, and the same, and the record thereof, canceled.

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Error from Johnson District Court. On the 15th of December 1870 Susan Knaggs, and A. E[. Knaggs her husband, brought their action against Mastín, praying that a certain paper purporting to be a deed be adjudged and decreed to be null and void, and the same, and the record thereof, canceled. Said deed or instrument was dated April 22d 1868, and purported on its face to convey in fee simple, with covenants of general warranty, a five-acre tract of land in Shawneetown, Johnson county, and also an eighty-acre tract of land in said county. On said 22d of April said Susan was the owner and held the…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

*5431. Conflicting flnánn¿e¿f fact by court. *542This was an action brought by theplainRffs in error to set aside a certain deed of conveyance purporting to have been executed by the plaintiffs to the defendant in error, and purporting to convey a certain house and lot in ifiShawneetown, Johnson county, and a certain eighty-acre tract of land also situated in said Johnson county. Th’e action was tried by the court below without the intervention of a jury. The court found generally for the defendant and .against the plaintiffs. No special findings…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Deering v. BoyleSupreme Court of Kansas · 1871

3Cited by33 opinions

  1. Jacoby v. City of GilletteWyoming Supreme Court · 1946
  2. McCann v. McCannSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1909
  3. Logan v. BrownSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
  4. Ayres v. ProbascoSupreme Court of Kansas · 1875
  5. De Vitt v. City of El RenoSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1910

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