Dodd v. Turner

Plaintiff filed this an ejectment suit to obtain possession of about one hundred and sixty acres of land situated in Butler county, Missouri. The defendants filed an answer in which they asked the court to cancel a deed under which plaintiff claimed title. They also, by their answer, asked the court to try and determine title of the respective parties in and to the land described in plaintiff's petition. The trial court entered a judgment for plaintiff and defendants appealed.

Plaintiff and the defendants, Malcolm Turner and Robert Lee Turner, are children and the only heirs at law of Dr. R.L.…