Graham v. Ketchum
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court. — lío». J. W. Alexander, Judge. Plaintiff’s suit having been brought more than ten years after the death of Mary McCully and more than three years after the death of David Graham, was barred by the Statute of Limitations, and the finding and judgment should have been for defendant.
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Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court. — lío». J. W. Alexander, Judge. Plaintiff’s suit having been brought more than ten years after the death of Mary McCully and more than three years after the death of David Graham, was barred by the Statute of Limitations, and the finding and judgment should have been for defendant. Sec. 4265, R. S. 1899, Wheelock: v. Overshiner, 110 Mo. 100. (1) Wheelock v. Overshiner, 110 Mo. 100’, is the only case cited and relied upon as authority hy appellant. While among other questions decided, it, in a measure, supports appellant’s contention that the widow does not…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
This is an ordinary petition in ejectment for an undivided one-eighteenth interest in the *21northeast quarter of the southwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-two in township sixty of range twenty-nine, in Daviess county, Missouri.
Defendant pleads the ten-year Statute of Limitations, claiming actual, continuous, adverse, notorious, visible and exclusive possession of the premises sued for, for more than ten years before the commencement of this suit. Also a general denial of all matters in plaintiff’s petition.
The reply consists merely of a general…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Leete v. State Bank of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Dyer v. BrannockSupreme Court of Missouri · 1877
- Gage v. GatesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Hall v. FrenchSupreme Court of Missouri · 1901
- Dyer v. WittlerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1886
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Powell v. BowenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1919
- Falvey v. HicksSupreme Court of Missouri · 1926
- Lewis v. BarnesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1917
- Mathis v. MeltonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1922
- Schneiderheinze v. BergSupreme Court of Missouri · 1916
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