Hughes v. Israel

This was an action of ejectment for 360 acres of land, consisting of four distinct but adjoining parts, or legal subdivisions of section 30, 67,13, in Schuyler county, *539Missouri. The petition was in the usual form. Suit was commenced on the 2nd day of February, 1877.

The answer contained, first, a specific denial of the allegations of the petition ; and then set up five distinct grounds of defense, in substance as follows : 1st, The statute of limitations — claiming that the defendant had been in the peaceable, open, notorious, adverse possession, of all of said lands, under valid claim of…