Malone v. Stretch

Defendant, in an action of ejectment, brought in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Missouri, recovered judgment against and evicted plaintiff, who, thereupon, brought in the Lewis cii’cuit court the present action for the value of improvements, and obtained a judgment in -the usual form for a sum of money, and defendant comes here on a writ of error.

The statute does not authorize an absolute judgment for a pecuniary recovery to be rendered in favor of an oc-. cupying claimant, as in the present instance. Russell v. Defrance, 39 Mo. 506. Nor do we think that…