Littleton v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. The plaintiff sued the defendant in the St. Louis Land Court, for dower, beginning the suit February 23, 1859. Among other defences, defendant answered that she, and those through whom she derived her title, had been in the continuous possession of the lot in which dower was sought more than ten years before the commencement of this suit, ■ claiming the same adversely to all the world; and that plaintiff had not claimed dower therein for…
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Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. The plaintiff sued the defendant in the St. Louis Land Court, for dower, beginning the suit February 23, 1859. Among other defences, defendant answered that she, and those through whom she derived her title, had been in the continuous possession of the lot in which dower was sought more than ten years before the commencement of this suit, ■ claiming the same adversely to all the world; and that plaintiff had not claimed dower therein for more than ten years next before the commencement of this suit. Upon the plaintiff’s motion, the court struck out this…
1Opinion of the CourtDryden, Judge
The only question arising in this case is whether the law limiting actions for the recovery of real estate, approved February 2, 1847 (Sess. Acts 1847, p. 94), and carried into the revision of 1855 (R. C. 1855, p. 1045), includes the limitation of suits for dower.
*365The first section of the act is as follows :
“ Sec. 1. No action at law, or suit in equity, for the recovery of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be commenced, had or maintained by any person, whether citizen, denizen, alien, resident or non-resident of this State, unless it…
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