Davies v. Symmes

Appeal by defendants from a decree in favor of plaintiffs and intervener in an action to quiet title to 4% acres of land. Appellants appear by counsel other than those who represented them in the court below.

The principal ground relied upon for reversal is that appellants were denied the right to amend their joint answers to the complaint and the complaint in intervention. While we have concluded that no error was committed in ruling on the applications to amend, the facts of the case are sufficiently peculiar to require a somewhat extended statement. In considering the applications to amend,…