Scruggs v. Scruggs
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to First District Court. The clerk’s entry on the record" was as follows : “I. D. Kei’r, sheriff of Cole county, this day comes into court and acknowledges the execution of a deed of conveyanee, conveying from him as sheriff to James Mahan the west half,” &c.
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Error to First District Court. The clerk’s entry on the record" was as follows : “I. D. Kei’r, sheriff of Cole county, this day comes into court and acknowledges the execution of a deed of conveyanee, conveying from him as sheriff to James Mahan the west half,” &c. The certificate of acknowledgment endorsed on the deed from the sheriff to Mahan was as follows : “State of Missouri, County of Cole. — Be it remembered, that on the 25th day of May, A. D. 1847, personally appeared the above-mentioned W. D. Kerr before the Circuit Court in and for the county of Cole, and in open court acknowledged…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
Ejectment brought by plaintiff for a tract of land in Cole county. The defence set up and relied on was the statute of limitations. On the trial in the Circuit Court the jury found for defendants, and judgment was rendered accordingly. The case was then taken to the District Court, where the judgment was affirmed, and from that decision the plaintiff prosecutes his writ of error.
At the trial in the Circuit Court, the plaintiff, for the purpose of deducing title, offered and read in evidence a deed made by the sheriff of Cole county to one Mahan, who after-wards conveyed all the title which he…
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