Hunt v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This is an action of ejectment to recover the possession of the north half of lot number 167, in the city of Boonville; the petition being in the usual form, and the answer a general denial.

On the trial plaintiffs obtained, judgment, from which defendant has prosecuted his writ of error, and seeks a reversal of the judgment upon various grounds, the most material and chief of which is the action of the court in giving and refusing instructions.

The instructions given for plaintiff, are as follows: 1. If the jury shall find from the evidence that the plaintiff was, on the 15th day of June,…