Naylor v. Cox

This is an action of ejectment instituted in the circuit court of Howard county, Missouri, for the following described land: “Beginning at a point in the slough twelve chains east of the line between sections 25 and 26 of township 49, of range 16, and running thence south seventy-nine degrees east down said slough thirty-five chains; thence south thirty-one chains; thence west forty chains; thence north thirty-seven and fifty hundredths chains co a slough; thence south seventy-nine degrees east twelve. *235and twenty-five hundredths chains to the beginning.” The answer was a general denial.

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