Searcy v. Clay County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Clay Circuit Court — Hon. E. J. Broaddus, Judge. (1) The demurrers of tlie defendants to the amended petition admit to be true all facts therein which are well and properly pleaded. Hence, they admit the several errors and deviations charged in the amended petition.
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Appeal from Clay Circuit Court — Hon. E. J. Broaddus, Judge. (1) The demurrers of tlie defendants to the amended petition admit to be true all facts therein which are well and properly pleaded. Hence, they admit the several errors and deviations charged in the amended petition. Shields v. Johnson Co., 144 Mo. 80; Butler v. Lawson, 72 Mo. 248; Goodson v. Goodson, 140 Mo. 215; Verdin v. St. Louis, 131 Mo. 74; Dodson v. Lo-mas, 113 Mo. 559. (2) It is charged in the amended petition that the errors committed by the county surveyor in his reports, the freeholders in their assessments of damages…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
This is a suit in equity, commenced in the circuit court of Clay county.'
The amended petition .to which a demurrer was sustained, omitting caption, is in the words following:
“And now conies Charles G. Searcy, the plaintiff in the above-entitled cause, by his attorney, and in this, *498his first amended petition herein, states the facts following constituting his cause of action against the defendants in said cause, to-wit:
“That before and during all the times mentioned herein, he was, and ever since has been, and now is, the owner in fee and in possession of the following described lands, situate…
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