Willard v. Ames

This was an action brought by the appellees against the appellants, to quiet the title to a tract of real estate.

The complaint was in two paragraphs, the first being in the ordinary form, alleging that the plaintiffs were the owners of the land in fee simple, and the defendants claimed an interest therein adverse to the plaintiffs, which claim was without right, and was a cloud upon the plaintiffs’ title.

The second paragraph, as amended, averred that in 1872 Kate Ames was the • owner of the property, and that there was then pending a certain slander suit, in which Joseph Hendricks was…