Corbin v. Galloway

HUNTER, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, John B. Corbin, appeals from a judgment for the defendant-•respondent, Harrison E. Galloway, rendered by the Circuit Court of Bates County, Missouri, sitting without a jury. The action was a suit in ejectment and for damages of $2,400 based on plaintiff’s claimed ownership of certain strips of land in Bates County and defendant’s wrongful withholding of possession and cutting a hedge therefrom.

Plaintiff owned 100 acres of farm land, and defendant owned 562 acres of farm land contingent in part to the west and south sides of plaintiff’s land. Many years ago…