Kunze v. Evans
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. — Hon. Chas. W. Sloan, Judge. (1) Plaintiff and Mrs. Evans, the wife of defendant, T. D. Evans, are coterminous proprietors of portions of lot 4 numbered in the pleadings; and the plaintiff, and those through whom he claims title, purchased with constructive notice of the metes and bounds of her premises, described in and fixed by the recorded conveyances in the line of her title.
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Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. — Hon. Chas. W. Sloan, Judge. (1) Plaintiff and Mrs. Evans, the wife of defendant, T. D. Evans, are coterminous proprietors of portions of lot 4 numbered in the pleadings; and the plaintiff, and those through whom he claims title, purchased with constructive notice of the metes and bounds of her premises, described in and fixed by the recorded conveyances in the line of her title. R. S., sec. 2419. (2) Defendants, and those through whom Mrs. Evans derives title, have held adverse possession of the premises conveyed to her for more than thirty years, not merely…
1Opinion of the CourtBrace, J.
This is an action of ejectment for a strip of ground in lot 4, in block 2, in the original town of Harrisonville in Cass county, instituted July 2, 1887. The plaintiff in his petition claimed three feet by thirty feet, six inches. The case was tried by the court without a jury, and he obtained judgment for two feet, two inches by thirty feet, six inches, of the land sued for, from which the defendants appeal. The parties are coterminous proprietors each of a subdivision of said lot, and the suit grows out of a dispute about the boundary line between them. The title of each is *490deraigned by…
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- Crawford v. AhrnesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1890
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- Kunze v. EvansSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895