Winans

This is an appeal by the defendants Emma R. Means and her five children from the judgment of the superior court directing the payment to the defendants Winans, Cole and Joyce of the amounts awarded the latter as successors in title to the interests of said appellants in the condemned property mentioned in the companion appeal to this (No. 693, ante, p. 234), the opinion in which is filed herewith, and which opinion is referred to for a statement of the facts of the case. An appeal is also taken from an order denying their motion for a new trial.

It is urged in support of these appeals that the series of transactions, proceedings and actions enumerated in the opinion in No. 693, ante, p. 234, failed to transfer the interests of Mrs. Means and her five children to the other defendants above named, or to any of them. The insufficiency of the evidence to justify the various finding upon which the portions of the decree so adjudicating is rested is specified as error in support of the motion for a new trial. It is also contended that neither the conclusions of law nor the interlocutory decree is sustained by the findings, that the findings are contradictory and that the court erred in…