Landis v. Hamilton

Philips, C.

This action was instituted in 1875 in Buchanan circuit court and tried on change of venue in Andrew circuit court. The petition stated in substance that Fourth street was a public street in the city of St. Joseph, forming the eastern boundary of block 40; that James Hamilton, the father of defendants, owned lot 12. in this block in 1856 ; that he dedicated to the public in his lifetime ten feet of the eastern end of this lot adjoin*556ing and cornering with Fourth street, and that said ten feet were accepted by the public and city as a thoroughfare; that in 1860 James Hamilton died,…