Holliday-Klotz Land & Lumber Co. v. Markham
Decision Date | 04 March 1901 |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Parties | HOLLIDAY-KLOTZ LAND & LUMBER CO. v. MARKHAM et al. |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Wayne County; Frank R. Dearing, Judge.
Action by Holliday-Klotz Land & Lumber Company against one Markham and another. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal. Affirmed.
The court gave of its own motion the following instructions: And at the request of the plaintiff the following instruction: It refused the following instruction, requested by the defendants:
M. R. Smith, for appellants. James F. Green, for respondent.
1. Plaintiff's action was for injury to possession of land. It could be sustained, therefore, only on one of two theories: First, that plaintiff was in the actual possession of the land when the trespass was committed; second, that the land was not in the actual possession of any one, but was in...
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