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QUINN v. ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY CO.

No. 53431.

439 S.W.2d 533 (1969)

Paul D. QUINN, Charles A. Quinn, Agnes Quinn Kennedy, and Mrs. Carl Laurent, Respondents, v. ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY CO., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

April 14, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. K. Wangelin, Wangelin & Friedewald, Poplar Bluff, for respondents.

James M. Reeves, Ward & Reeves, Caruthersville, for appellant.

Ernest D. Grinnell, Jr., Wm. Bruce Kopper, St. Louis, of counsel, for appellant.

WELBORN, Commissioner.

The question in this case, arising by way of an action to quiet title, is whether, upon the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway's ceasing operations through Poplar Bluff in 1965, the land on which its depot stood reverted to the heirs of the grantor of the land, by virtue of a "reverter" clause in a 1901 deed, or became the property of the Frisco by reason of its ownership of adjacent land. The trial court found in favor of the heirs of the grantor...

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