Maniaci v. Hutchings

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

Unlawful detainer. Plaintiff-owners have appealed from an adverse judgment. Their petition in the magistrate court described their property as “a 133 acre farm containing a dwelling house and outbuildings, adjacent or near to Old State Road, R.R. # 1, Beaufort, Missouri.” On trial the magistrate dismissed plaintiffs’ petition on *913the ground “there is no description of the property.”

Plaintiffs duly appealed to the circuit court. There they filed an amended petition giving a metes-and-bounds description of their farm. Defendants moved to dismiss on the ground that because…