State ex rel. Cooper v. Goodrich
Supreme Court of Missouri
Prohibition. By an examination of the petition, it will he seen that the plaintiffs in the injunction suit claim to he the owners and entitled to certain timber now standing on a large tract of land situated in Osage county, this State, and that they have the right to enter upon said land and cut and remove the timber thereform, and further claim that the relators are interfering with their. right to enter' upon said land and cut and remove said timber.
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Prohibition. By an examination of the petition, it will he seen that the plaintiffs in the injunction suit claim to he the owners and entitled to certain timber now standing on a large tract of land situated in Osage county, this State, and that they have the right to enter upon said land and cut and remove the timber thereform, and further claim that the relators are interfering with their. right to enter' upon said land and cut and remove said timber. The answer of the defendants, relators herein, alleges that they are the absolute owners of the said land,- situated in said Osage county,…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodson, J.
This suit involves but a single proposition of law, the facts being practically undisputed.
The relators, under an assignment of a contract, made and entered into by and between one Allen and their ac'°ignors, claim the right to continue the possession of and to cut and remove standing timber from a certain tract of land situate in Osage county Missouri.
The title to the lands, some three thousand acres, through mesne conveyances, became vested in the respondents, Cooper et al. Since, however, there is no question raised regarding the purchase without notice, etc., we will put those conveyances…
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- Pratte v. Coffman'sSupreme Court of Missouri · 1858
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