Wm. H. Johnson Timber & Realty Co. v. Belt

ATWOOD, J. —

Respondents were plaintiffs in a proceeding commenced August 29, 1927, in the Circuit Court of Taney County, Missouri, involving title and right to possession of timber land described as the N.E. \ S. E. \ of Section 26, Township 22, Range 22, in said county. They went to trial on their second amended petition which consisted of a count to ascertain and determine title under Section 1970, Revised Statutes 1919, and another count in ejectment, both in conventional form.

In the first -count of their petition plaintiffs prayed “the court to try, ascertain and determine the title and…