Bay v. Stout Sign Company

HYDE, Judge.

Action to ascertain and determine title to a strip of land 40 feet wide in St. Louis County, claimed by plaintiffs. Defendant asked adjudication of fee simple title in it, which the court made in its judgment, and plaintiffs have appealed. Title to real estate clearly is involved.

The decisive question is whether or not this 40 foot strip was conveyed by plaintiffs to defendant’s predecessor in title by being included in the description in their warranty deed dated April 17,1937. That description was as follows: “A portion of Lot Eleven (11) of the Subdivision of the Jennings…