Jones v. Jones

This action is one involving title to eighty acres of land in Stone County, Missouri. The plaintiff (respondent) and the defendant (appellant) were formerly husband and wife. On October 4, 1923, by decree of the Circuit Court of Stone County, the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant were dissolved and the parties were divorced, plaintiff being adjudged to be the innocent and injured party. At and prior to the entry of said divorce decree, plaintiff and defendant were the owners of an estate by the entirety in and to the eighty acres of land now in controversy. By the…