Hamburg Realty Company v. Woods

HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

In this action plaintiff, Hamburg Realty Company, a corporation, sued in Count I of its petition to quiet its alleged fee simple record title to certain island lands situate in the Missouri River immediately south of the Iowa-Missouri state line in Atchison County, Missouri, and in Count II sought possession of said lands. Certain of the defendants, F. Pace Woods, his wife, Olive Black Woods, and Lucian Smith, denied plaintiff’s ownership of that portion of the lands claimed by plaintiff which said defendants alleged were adjacent or attached to an area known as Original…