Pettis County v. Reavis
Pettis County v. Reavis
Opinion of the Court
— Ejectment for a strip of ground which may be described thus: Beginning six and two-thirds feet south of the section line and 1350% feet west of the northeast comer of section 12, township 45, range 23, Pettis county; thence south 13 1-3 feet; thence west 2701 feet to. a point 20 feet south of the northeast corner of M "W. of N. W. of section 12; thence easterly to the beginning.
There was evidence the parcel described was part of a strip forty feet wide, opened as a public road many years ago, and evidence to the contrary. Plaintiff depended principally upon the testimony of the county surveyor and a survey he had made of the parcel. Defendant offered evidence tending to show this survey was incorrect and that the surveyor had established the northeast corner of section 12 at a point different from that at which the government corner had been originally placed.
The errors assigned are the admission of the evidence to impeach the survey plaintiff offered and the refusal of an instruction asked by plaintiff.
The case seems to have been well tried and the jury settled the question of fact against plaintiff. The judgment is affirmed.
— The foregoing opinion o’f Blair, C., is adopted as the opinion of the court.
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