Burch v. Winston

"V"Okies, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff in the Cole Circuit Court, on the 19th day of November, 1869, to recover from the defendants a lot of land in Jefferson City, known as inlot eight hundred and thirty-one.

The petition was in the usual form.

*63The defendants by their answer denied the allegations of the petition, and then set up the statute of limitations, charging that neither plaintiff, his ancestors, predecessors, grantors or persons under whom he claims, was seized or possessed of the premises described in plaintiff’s…