Baker v. McDaniel
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Greene Circuit Court. — Hon. Jas. T. Neville, Judge. (1) The statute of • limitations will not run against the public. Dillon, 675; State v. Warren, 51 Mo. App. 174; Williams v. St. Louis, 120 Mo. 403; R. S. 1899, sec. 4270; State v. Walters, 69 Mo. 463; Cummings v. St. Louis, 90 Mo. 259; Brown v. Carthage, 128 Mo. 17. (2) Lands dedicated to public use at common law remain for all other purposes the property of the dedicator.
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Appeal from Greene Circuit Court. — Hon. Jas. T. Neville, Judge. (1) The statute of • limitations will not run against the public. Dillon, 675; State v. Warren, 51 Mo. App. 174; Williams v. St. Louis, 120 Mo. 403; R. S. 1899, sec. 4270; State v. Walters, 69 Mo. 463; Cummings v. St. Louis, 90 Mo. 259; Brown v. Carthage, 128 Mo. 17. (2) Lands dedicated to public use at common law remain for all other purposes the property of the dedicator. Ragan v. McCoy, 29 Mo. 366; Pierce v. Chamberlain, 82 Mo. 618; Cummings v. St. Louis, 90 Mo. 259; Campbell v. City of Kansas, 102 Mo. 326; Vossen v. Dantel,…
1Opinion of the CourtFox, J.
That we may fully understand this case as presented by the pleadings in the trial court, we here insert them.
On the 22d day of December, 1899, the plaintiff below filed her petition in the Greene Circuit Court, and sued out a writ in due form thereon, returnable to the January term, 1900, of said court, which petition is as follows:
‘ ‘ The plaintiff for her cause of action in the above entitled cause states, that she is, and for the last sixteen years has been, the owner in fee simple of the real estate situated in lots seventeen, eighteen and twenty in block five of the original town of…
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