Long v. McDow
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Morgan Circuit Court. — Hon. E. L. Edwards, Judge. Tbe leading cases on the question presented are, Warfield r>. Lxndell, 30 Mo. 272, and the same case, 38-Mo. 561; Lapeyre v. Paul, 47 Mo. 586. The common law and American authorities are examined in these cases.
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Appeal from Morgan Circuit Court. — Hon. E. L. Edwards, Judge. Tbe leading cases on the question presented are, Warfield r>. Lxndell, 30 Mo. 272, and the same case, 38-Mo. 561; Lapeyre v. Paul, 47 Mo. 586. The common law and American authorities are examined in these cases. It seems certain that the plaintiffs’ right of action was not barred, because the entry of defendant’s was not made under an adverse title from others, but under the common title of all, If the entry had been. adverse the defendant had not occupied the lands, definitely, for twenty-fonr years before the commencement of…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
Plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, sue in ejectment for the one-third part of the southeast quarter of section eighteen, township forty-two, range sixteen, lying in Morgan county, Missouri. Ira Nash, a former resident of Boone county, was the father of three children, Neppy, who married Isaac Jeffries ; Alpha M., who married John McDow, and Zarada Nash, who married Greene Hutchings. The issue of this last marriage is the plaintiff, Caroline Long, who married her co-plaintiff and husband in 1836, and removed with her husband to California in 1850, where they have since resided. Neither she…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Warfield v. LindellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1860
- State v. MooreSupreme Court of Missouri · 1875
- Warfield v. LindellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1866
- Lapeyre v. PaulSupreme Court of Missouri · 1871
- Dufield v. CrossIllinois Supreme Court · 1851
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