Richmond v. Ashcraft
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from. Ripley Circuit Court. — Son. J. G. Sheppard, Judge. Statement. — Plaintiff instituted an action against defendant to quiet the title to a tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres in Ripley county.
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Appeal from. Ripley Circuit Court. — Son. J. G. Sheppard, Judge. Statement. — Plaintiff instituted an action against defendant to quiet the title to a tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres in Ripley county. The answer was an action of ejectment against plaintiff for possession of the land, which action culminated in a judgment declaring the title in fee simple to be in defendant, awarding her possession and $200 damages, and assessing the value of the yearly rents and profits of the land at $35. Thereafter plaintiff began this proceeding on the statute to recover compensation…
1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.
(after stating the facts). — In passing on this appeal we have not been helped by brief or argument for plaintiff as we were entitled to be, considering the difficult points of law involved and the authorities arrayed by defendants’s counsel in support of their propositions. They insist a verdict should have been directed for their client because plaintiff’s own testimony demonstrates he made the improvements in controversy with full knowledge of her claim and title, and therefore not in good faith or prior to notice. The statute on which the action was bro'ugJit read's thus:
“If a judgment or…
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