Wright v. City of Joplin

This is an action brought by plaintiffs as owners of certain lots in what is platted as the First Addition to East Joplin City, now included within the corporate limits of defendant city. It is alleged by plaintiffs that the defendant is encroaching and threatening to encroach upon their property with its streets and street improvements and is seeking to take and appropriate portions of the land owned by plaintiffs for street purposes, the controversy arising by reason of a dispute as to the correct *391boundaries of tbe lots claimed by tbe plaintiffs, and asking that tbe location of certain…