Laclede Land & Improvement Co. v. Creason

This is an action brought hy plaintiff under section 2535, Revised Statutes 1909, to determine title to the east half of section 18, in township 32 north, of range 1 west, in Reynolds county.

The petition is conventional. The record nowhere shows who the defendants were other than the respondent Owen Creason; hut it does appear that O. A. Smith and “Sarah Hunt Pelton et al.” appeared and answered. The record does not disclose in any manner who the others were answering jointly with defendant Sarah Hunt Pelton. It appears in the record that defendant Owen Creason neither appeared nor pleaded,…