Sylvester v. Kirkpatrick

John B. Sylvester, plaintiff and cross-defendant, and Mary Nunnes Martin Almeida and John Almeida, cross-defendants, appeal from the judgment for W. J. Kirkpatrick, defendant and cross-complainant, quieting title to real property. Hereafter the parties will be referred to as Sylvester, the Almeidas, and Kirkpatrick.

Sylvester’s complaint alleged his ownership of certain real property in which Kirkpatrick claimed title. A prayer for damages was based on allegations that through the latter’s wrongful acts in slandering Sylvester’s title to such property, Sylvester had been damaged in the sum of…