Hurt v. Edwards

This action is called a suit to quiet title. However, the title to all of the land involved herein was determined as between the parties hereto (or their grantors) by a decree entered in accordance with the mandate of this court in Davis v. Stevens,344 Mo. 24, 124 S.W.2d 1132. The prayer of the petition herein seeks a judgment for possession (as well as a determination of the title), which perhaps may have been the real reason for bringing this suit. Defendants' answer sought as affirmative relief an adjudication that the title was in defendant Ethel S. Edwards. The judgment herein made the…