Dyer v. Wittler
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to the St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) Our Supreme Court Lave continuously asserted the doctrine, since the passage of onr present statute of ■limitations, February 22, 1847, that where there was no ■seizin or right of possession, the statute did not run.
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Error to the St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) Our Supreme Court Lave continuously asserted the doctrine, since the passage of onr present statute of ■limitations, February 22, 1847, that where there was no ■seizin or right of possession, the statute did not run. Sutton v. Casseleggi, 77 Mo. 397; Brown v. Moore, 74 Mo. 633; Embree v. Patrick, 72 Mo. 173 ; Dyer v. Brannock, 66 Mo. 391; Miller v. Bledsoe, 61 Mo. 96 ; Webb v. Donaldson, 60 Mo. 394; Qarr v. Dings, 54 Mo. 95 ; Littleton v. Patterson, 32 Mo. 357 ; Salmon v. Davis, 29 Mo. 176. And this seems to be the universal doctrine. Jaclc- ' son…
1Opinion of the CourtRay, J.
This is an action of ejectment for certain-real estate in the city of St. Louis, described in the amended petition, upon which the case was tried. Suit was commenced in May, 1878. The defence is the statute of limitations of twenty-four years. R. S., sec. 3222. The reply is, that in the year 1838 the mother of the plaintiffs was the owner of the land in fee-simple, having inherited it from her father; that she was, at the time, the wife of Abner W. Dyer, their father; that there was issue born alive of the marriage in 1837; that their marital relation continued until 1869, when it was…
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