Case Name: ROWE et al., Appellants, v. CURRENT RIVER LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1902-02-25
Citations: 167 Mo. 305
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROWE et al., Appellants, v. CURRENT RIVER LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 167
Pages: 305–306

Head Matter:
ROWE et al., Appellants, v. CURRENT RIVER LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY.
Division Two,
February 25, 1902.
Appeal: courts: title to land: transfer of cause. Where, in a suit to quiet title to land, the court finds the title to be in plaintiffs, but decrees a lien on the land for an aggregate sum of $86, expended in payment of taxes by defendant, and the question on appeal is not the title, but whether such sum ought to constitute a lien, the case will be transferred from the Supreme to the Court of Appeals.
Appeal from Shannon Circuit Court. — Hon. W. N. Evans, Judge.
Transferred to St. Louis Court of Appeals.
• Warren D. Isenberg, John G. Brown, Thomas M. and Gyrus H. Jones for appellants.
James Orchard and L. B. Shuck for respondent.

Opinion:
SHERWOOD, P. J.
Suit to quiet title to land. On hearing had,' the trial court found and adjudged the title to be in plaintiffs; but inasmuch as defendant had paid out the sum of $3,649 when purchasing the land for taxes at an invalid sale, and had since that time paid out also the further sum of $50.42 in taxes on said land, the court required plaintiffs to pay the sums thus expended, amounting in the aggregate to $86.90, to defendant, and made said sum a lien on the land. So that the questions now at issue between the parties litigant is the sum last aforesaid, and whether it ought to constitute a lien on the land.
It is clear from this statement that as title to land is not involved in this litigation, and as the sum in controversy is not sufficient to confer jurisdiction on this court, we have no jurisdiction of the cause; and it is accordingly transferred to the St. Louis Court of Appeals.
All concur.