Bixby v. Backues

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of Maries County adjudging title to certain real estate to be in defendants.

This suit was commenced in December, 1938. The amended petition, on which the case was tried, alleges: that plaintiff is the owner in fee and in possession of land in Maries county described as “all the Southeast fractional quarter East of the Gasconade river in Section 4, Township 40, Range 8; ” that he has paid all taxes on said land that were ever paid; that he and those under whom he claims have been in the actual possession, had a fence erected…