Jones v. Anderson

FLANIGAN, Judge.

From 1971 to 1979 plaintiff Merle D. Jones and defendant Icey Anderson, a/k/a Icey Anderson Jones, lived together on a forty-acre farm in Polk County, Missouri, but they were never husband and wife. When his relationship with defendant commenced, plaintiff was the husband of Sarah Daisy Jones and that marriage remained in effect until its dissolution by decree in April 1977. The farm was in the name of defendant alone, she having acquired title on December 7, 1971. Although the record is unclear, it is a reasonable inference that the parties started living together on the farm…