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Show OLD TITLE ACTION IS AGAIN IN COURT Son Allowed Father to Live on Property; Prop-erty; Administrators Want Matter Settled. Suit to quiet title to real estate designated as part of section 14, township town-ship 3 south, range 1 west, was filod in the district court yesterdaj- by Thomas aud Herbert Sbeppick, administrators admin-istrators of the estate of William G. Sbeppick against William Sheppick. The actio.n is a sequel to a suit brought several yoars ajo hy tho de-fondant de-fondant in tbo present case against bis father, William G. Sheppick, now dead. Young Sheppick sought to regain possession pos-session of laud on which his father lived. It was shown in court that the younger Sheppick held titlo to the land, but that he had promisod to allow his father to rcsido on tho laud as long as bo lived. Accordingly the district court held that the father and son owned the land jointly. In the supreme court, where the case was taken for roview bv both sides, it was held that the laud belonged be-longed solely to tho son and that the moral obligation involved in tho case could not oo enforced legally. Tho action filed yesterday" b.y admin, istrators of tho estato of tfio elder Sheppick ronpons tho case. |