First National Bank of Cape Girardeau v. Socony Mobil Oil Co.

HIGGINS, Commissioner.

Action by plaintiff in Count I for ejectment of defendant from land in Cape Gir-ardeau, Missouri, on which defendant maintains an unloading dock facility on the Mississippi River and for damages for loss of rents and profits accruing at a rate of $15,000 per year since May, 1954; in Count II for trespass, injunction, and $23,000 damages; and in Count III for mandatory injunction for removal of facilities and $200,000 punitive damages. Defendant, in answer to Count I, denied plaintiff’s right to recovery in ejectment, claimed a right to possession as lessee in three…