Meddis v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court.— Hon. Henry C. Riley, Judge. It is contended by counsel on the other side that this action has been barred by lapse of time.
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Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court.— Hon. Henry C. Riley, Judge. It is contended by counsel on the other side that this action has been barred by lapse of time. It is admitted that their contention would be correct if the right had not been saved by section 4285, Revised Statutes 1899. Teresa Albert, devisee of John Albert, deceased, brought an action of ejectment against certain defendants, through whom the defendants herein claim to have derived therein title and right to possession. She died in 1896 and the action was revived by her heirs. The personal assets of John Albert’s estate…
1Opinion of the Court
BRACE, P. J. J.
— This is an action in ejectment, instituted on the 4th day of September 1899, in the Cape Girardeau Circuit Court, to recover possession of the *130following described real estate situate in said county, to-wit: ‘ ‘ The northwest quarter of section nine in township twenty-nine north, of range twelve east, containing one hundred and sixty acres, except a strip of ground one hundred feet wide across the same occupied by the Belmont branch of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railway as a roadbed and right of way, and a strip of ground one hundred feet wide across the same…
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