Payne v. Payne

These are cross-appeals from a purported judgment of the Circuit Court of Wayne County arising out of an unfortunate feud between neighbors and relatives. Because we conclude that the judgment was ineffective as a final judgment, and was merely an interlocutory determination of certain rights of the parties, it is necessary for us to dismiss the appeals.

Plaintiffs John and Virgie Payne, husband and wife, own a certain tract of land in Wayne County, Missouri. The record description of their property runs to a particular pair of intersecting quarter-quarter section lines as the north and east…