Miller v. Gaston

SOMERVILLE, ¡J.

The provisions of the act approved October' 1, 1923 (Gen. Acts 1923, p. 699), known as the Grove Act, “To provide for the establishment of titles to real estate by a proceeding in rem,” have been codified as article 2 of chapter 336 of the Code of 1923, comprising sections 9912 to 9928, inclusive. In the preceding chapter —sections 9905 to 9911, inclusive — the previous system of procedure for quieting titles is preserved intact. The two systems overlap as to bills of complaint by persons “in the actual peaceable possession” of the land in suit, with respect to relief against…