Hansen v. O'Malley

Frederick Walter Hansen instituted this action to quiet the title to 6700 Schofield Place in St. Louis County. Upon this appeal he urges that he established title by adverse possession and that, therefore, the trial court erred in finding against him.

According to the plaintiff's evidence, by warranty deed, the legal title to the property was in "John O'Malley and Mary O'Malley, his wife" and had been since April 26th, 1900. Mary O'Malley, John Sr's. wife died in 1918. On June 4, 1919, the plaintiff, Hansen, married the O'Malleys' daughter, Mary. She was then living in her parents' home at…