Webster v. Hall

The final amended complaint filed herein was entitled as one “in chancery for an accounting and for partition.” However, a full reading of said complaint discloses that the main relief sought is the construction of a deed executed in 1896 conveying life estates and remainders in certain real estate in Clay county, and for the quieting of title thereto. The principal defendants filed motions to strike said amended complaint and dismiss the suit upon the basis that it “shows no facts which entitle plaintiffs to partition, accounting, quieting of title or any relief prayed.” The trial court…