Townsend v. Lawrence

McDOWELL, Presiding Judge.’

Action in ejectment for possession of approximately one acre of land in Stone •County, Missouri. Cause was tried before the court and judgment rendered for defendant. Plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court and the cause was, by that court, transferred here because title to real estate was only incidentally involved as basis of claim to possession.

The petition alleged ownership in plaintiff of a strip of land lying between the old Galena and Berryville road and the present Galena and Berryville road, being west of the old road and east of the new road or present…