Sutton v. Anderson

This case reaches us on cross-appeals and comes to the writer by reassignment after a second hearing. It is the last of a group of related cases here heard on appeal between T. F. Sutton and Ben M. Anderson and connected with a tract of about four hundred acres of land in Boone County, Missouri. For the sake of brevity the parties will be referred to as Sutton and Anderson. A resume of this litigation, and particularly the proceedings in the instant case, is necessary to a consideration of the errors assigned.

The first case was a proceeding to try and determine title to this land, instituted…