Hickman v. Link
Decision Date | 04 February 1889 |
Citation | 97 Mo. 482,10 S.W. 600 |
Parties | HICKMAN v. LINK et al. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from circuit court, St. Louis county; W. W. EDWARDS, Judge.
Ejectment by Joshua Hickman against Mary I. Link and Martin Link. There was a trial to the court, who, at plaintiff's instance, gave the following instructions:
To the giving of which instructions defendants excepted.
The court refused the following instructions asked by defendants "(1) If the court, sitting as a jury, finds the facts to be that, after the death of Martin McCourtney in May, 1853, one Sloan and the heirs of one Krepps claimed title to a tract of land that included the premises here in controversy; that, after the death of the said McCourtney, his widow, Ann McCourtney, claimed as her own and rented the premises then in controversy to James E. Bacon, who went upon the same as her tenant; that while her tenant was in such possession an action of ejectment was brought against him by the said claimants for a tract of land that includes the premises here in controversy; that the said Bacon claimed no other interest in the premises than as such tenant; that the said Ann McCourtney became a party defendant to said suit, and that there was a final judgment rendered in favor of the defendants therein; that the said Ann McCourtney continued to occupy the premises in controversy in that suit, claiming the same as her own until her death in 1866, and during a period of more than ten years; that Henry H. Goodwin, under whom plaintiff claims, did not, during that time, occupy any of the premises in controversy in that suit, or in this suit, or cause himself to be made a party thereto, — then the defendants have shown title to the premises in controversy on the ____ day of August, 1866, in Ann McCourtney, by adverse possession and limitation of time, as against said Goodwin and those holding under him. And if the court further finds from the evidence that the said Ann McCourtney died on the ____ day of August, 1866, leaving as her sole heirs, her two sons and two daughters, to-wit, John M., Andrew J., Mary I., and Sarah A. McCourtney; that the said John M. and Andrew J. McCourtney left this state about the year 1864, and have never returned, or been heard from by their friends or relatives since that time, or for more than seven years next before the commencement of this suit; that the said Mary I. intermarried with George W. Link previous to the death of Ann McCourtney, and remained a married woman, and the wife of the said Link, up to within less than three years next before the commencement of this suit; that a partition of the premises embraced within the boundaries of the land recovered by the said Ann McCourtney in said cause was made about the year 1879 in the circuit court of St. Louis county, among the then surviving heirs of Ann McCourtney, and that the lots in controversy in this suit were assigned by the commissioners and the judgment of the court to the defendant Mary I. Link, — then the finding ought to be for the defendants.
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