Wise

This suit was commenced in the court below on the 23d day of June, 1914, by Cornelius C. Watts and Dabney C T. Davis, Jr., to quiet title to a tract of land containing 99,289.39 acres, situate in what was formerly the territory of New Mexico, but what is now Santa Cruz county in the state of Arizona. The defendants answered, and it was stipulated by and between the respective parties, among other things, “that the pleadings by way of answer of each arid every defendant herein, heretofore or hereafter duly served upon the solicitors for the plaintiffs or upon the solicitors for the defendants affected thereby, shall be taken not only as a pleading by way of answer, but also as a cross-bill duly filed, served, controverted and at issue, asking affirmative relief against the plaintiffs and against each and every other defendant in the action,” and it was further stipulated “that each and every paper was duly served by each of said parties upon each of the other parties or upon the solicitor or solicitors of such other parties.”

The trial resulted in a decree of the court adjudging the title to the land in controversy in the following named parties, and in the proportions stated,…