Clifton

Action to quiet title to real estate. Plaintiffs were husband and wife, and by a complaint in the usual form in such cases alleged that Flora K. Clifton was the owner of the property in question, and that defendant C. N. Herrick and his codefendants wrongfully and without right asserted a claim and interest therein. Defendants answered, denying Flora K. Clifton’s ownership of the property, and alleged that title thereto was vested in C. N. Herrick under and by virtue of a sheriff’s deed made and delivered to him by virtue of a sale under an execution issued upon a judgment against Kate Cockran, the mother of plaintiff, Flora K. Clifton, who, it is alleged, purchased and paid for the property with her separate funds, and while the judgment was in force caused the same to be conveyed to plaintiff Flora K. Clifton for the purpose of defrauding the holder of the judgment.

The court, in effect, found that Flora K. Clifton was not the owner of the lot in question and had no estate or interest therein; that on October 1, 1902, and while Kate Cockran, mother of said Flora K. Clifton, was a judgment debtor of Ann Herrick, she, said Kate Cockran, with her separate funds, purchased the lot…