Viking Refrigerator & Manufacturing Co. v. Crawford

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The appellee brought suit to quiet title to lots 40 and 41 in block 70, Wyandotte City, now Kansas City, claiming to be the owner by adversé possession for more than fifteen years. The court rendered judg*204ment in favor of the appellee, which the appellant seeks to reverse.

The Wyandotte Town Company held the legal title, and, on the 19th day of January, 1861, conveyed the same to David Crawford, from whom the appellant claims by a direct line of conveyances. Sometime in 1881 or 1882 W. H. Ryus took possession of the lots, in connectipn with…