Hafner Manufacturing Co. v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. William M. Kinsey, Judge. (1) The property in suit directly adjoining on the east other property of complainant, was in the .peaceable, undisputed and uninterrupted possession of complainant for some six years immediately preceding and up to the time it was dispossessed by defendant.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. William M. Kinsey, Judge. (1) The property in suit directly adjoining on the east other property of complainant, was in the .peaceable, undisputed and uninterrupted possession of complainant for some six years immediately preceding and up to the time it was dispossessed by defendant. November 21, 1910. The property is unimproved, neither paved nor in any manner fitted for wharf purposes and used by complainant as a lumber yard. Defendant has never sought to, or in any manner used the property except, as is to be derived from its evidence, for a…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
Forcible entry and detainer. Plaintiff, cast below on a trial to the merits, appeals. Plaintiff corporation owned a block of ground on Dock street abutting on the public wharf in North St. Louis. On said block was situate its manufacturing plant. If a certain two of the parallel lines of that block were produced to the Mississippi River, they include a part of said wharf. On a part of the land lying between said lines so produced, plaintiff had for some time piled lumber for use in its manufacturing business. It seems this lumber, of the value of, say, $40,000, was piled there by leave of the…
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