Graves v. Chapman
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Butler Circuit Court. — How. J. C. Sheppard, Judge. (1) The court erred in finding and adjudging plaintiff to be the owner of the land in controversy.
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Appeal from Butler Circuit Court. — How. J. C. Sheppard, Judge. (1) The court erred in finding and adjudging plaintiff to be the owner of the land in controversy. No competent testimony of any kind whatever was offered by plaintiff to show that the grantor named in the deed dated August 4, 1903, Addison F. Burns, under which plaintiff claims, was the same person as either Adam F. Bums, the grantee named in the deed dated May 9, 1873, or Adam T. Burns, the grantee named in the deed dated January 1, 1873. Borders v. Barber, 81 Mo. 636: Leslie v. Coal Co., 110 Mo. 31: Bank v. Thayer, 184 Mo. 61;…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodson, P. J.
The plaintiff instituted this suit in the circuit court of Butler county against S. M. Chapman, Isaac Luke, the National Iron Mining Company, a corporation, J. P. Thomas, Adams T. Burns, Adam F. Burns and Addison F. Burns, alias Adam T. Burns, alias Adam F. Bums, under section 650, Revised Statutes 1899, now section 2535, Revised Stat*87utes 1909, to ascertain and determine the right, title and interest of the parties to the north half of the northwest quarter of section eleven, and the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twelve, all in township twenty-six, range five, Butler…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- State ex rel. Ponath v. MuenchSupreme Court of Missouri · 1910
- Gray v. WardSupreme Court of Missouri · 1911
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