Campbell v. City of Kansas
Supreme Court of Missouri
Af'peal from Johnson Circuit Court. — Hon. N. M. Gtvan, Judge. (1) To recover in ejectment the plaintiffs must have an absolute right of possession as against the whole world.
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Af'peal from Johnson Circuit Court. — Hon. N. M. Gtvan, Judge. (1) To recover in ejectment the plaintiffs must have an absolute right of possession as against the whole world. (2) Defendant’s first instruction should have been given, because the undisputed testimony showed that a large number of people had been buried in the ground in controversy, and that the larger part of them are buried there yet, and that all' of them had been buried in the square in controversy after it had been expressly dedicated by its owners for the purposes of a graveyard. Stockton v. City of Newark, 9 Atl. Rep.…
1Opinion of the Court
Alexander Martin, Special Judge.
— This is a suit in ejectment, brought in April, 1884, by John Campbell and some thirty other plaintiffs, as owners in common, against the City of Kansas, for recovery of a block of ground situated in said city, between Oak and Locust streets and Missouri and Independence avenues. The petition is in the usual form, alleging the right of possession in plaintiffs, and their ouster and dispossession by defendant.
The answer, along with a general denial, contains averments of some evidential facts, admissible under the *337denial, to the effect that the land sued for…
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