Lucas v. Heuston

— This is an action in ejectment to recover a strip of land five feet wide by one hundred and sixty feet long, off of the west side of the, southeast quarter of block 29 of Hall’s addition to Nevada, Missouri. The petition is in the usual form. .The answer is a general denial and a plea of the ten-year statute of limitations. The ease was tried before Hon. O. H. Hoss, as special judge, without the aid of a jury, on December 20, 1898, taken under advisement, and decided in favor of the defendant on December 81, 1898. Within due time, a motion for new trial was filed; all of which occurred at…