Cape Girardeau & Bloomfield Macadamized & Gravel Road Co. v. Renfroe

This was an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a house and a parcel of land named in the petition.

The petition was as follows, to-wit: “ Plaintiff states that by an act of the General Assembly, entitled, ‘ An act to incorporate the Cape Girardeau and Bloomfield Macadamized and Gravel road Company,’ approved Oct. 25th, 1857, plaintiff was duly incorporated. Plaintiff states, that on the 1st day of July, 1873, they were legally entitled to the possession of a certain building known as the Allenville toll house, situated in said county, at Allenville, and the ground on which the…