Kincaid v. Dormey
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Livingston Court of Common Pleas. The evidence in this case showed that the appellant was the owner of 120 acres of land off the north side of the northwest quarter of section 1, in township 56, range 24, in Livingston county, Mo., and the respondent is the owner of the remainder of said quarter-section.
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Appeal from Livingston Court of Common Pleas. The evidence in this case showed that the appellant was the owner of 120 acres of land off the north side of the northwest quarter of section 1, in township 56, range 24, in Livingston county, Mo., and the respondent is the owner of the remainder of said quarter-section. The quarter-section was entered from the United States in the year 1857 by one Samuel Earris, under an agreement (as contended by appellant) with respondent that,it should be divided between them in the proportions stated. Before the purchase by Earris he entered upon and took…
1Opinion of the CourtBliss, Judge
The parties are adjacent owners of land embraced in the northwest quarter of section 1, etc., the defendant owning the north 120 acres, and the plaintiff the balance. The plaintiff brings his action for some ten acres alleged to be inclosed and occupied *339by the defendant over and above his 120 acres, and the controversy is in relation to the true division line. Defendant appeals from the judgment against him, and first objects to the action of the court in admitting in evidence the record of a survey made by the county surveyor, in which he established the destroyed quarter-section corners of…
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