Hobson v. Elmer

In March, 1941, the respondent Ernest Hob-son, through his statutory guardian, N. D. Hobson, instituted the present proceeding' by filing in the Circuit Court of Dent County, Missouri, a petition in ejectment, seeking to obtain possession of a portion of two city lots in Salem, Missouri. . The defendants named in the original petition were W. P. Elmer and Jack Wesley, who are now appellants in this court. The defendant Elmer answered, admitting that he claimed ownership of the property here involved and that his co-defendant Wesley was in possession thereof, denying the other allegations of…