...influenced therein by the said Henry Henderson. In actions of ejectment, the plaintiff recovers. If at all, upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of the title of the defendant, If any there be. To recover In this action, the plaintiff, John Pritchard,...

...against the naked present possession of the defendants. Strict title is not involved. The doctrine that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title is applied to cases where the strict legal title in contradistinction from a mere possession is involved....

...plaintiff below to show a perfect chain of title back to the common source. A familiar rule In ejectment is that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's title. It must be observed, however, that this rule does not require a plaintiff to exhibit...

...conferred or passed any title to plaintiff. As in ejectment, or in the corresponding statutory real action, the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of defendant's, when no relation exists creating an estoppel of defendant's denial of plaintiff's title,...

...tended to show possession In the defendant and those under whom he claimed. A plaintiff in ejectment must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's. He cannot recover as against one without title unless he prove title or prior possession....

...invalid, plaintiff was in fact a trespasser. [6] While It is a general rule that a plaintiff in ejectment must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's, this rule has no application where the defendant is a mere trespasser Invading the actual...

...proceeding, and the Interpleader asserting ownership in himself, he must, of course, as in replevin, recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's. Beck v. Wisely, 63 Mo App. 239; Reeves v. Barker, 26 Mo. App. 487; Brownwell, etc.. Car...

...title was found to l>e fraudulent, held, that he could not recover: Bouton v. Orr, 51-473. 127. As plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title and not upon the defects of his adversary, if defendant sets up an adverse and independent chain of title iii a cross-bill,...

...recover such lands. It is an elementary rule in ejectment that the plaintiff must recover, if at all, upon the strength of his own title and not upon the weakness of his adversary's: and this being so it will be unnecessary to consider the defenses pleaded in the answer,...

...of the jury. This is an action of trespass to try title, and the plaintiff must recover, if at all, upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of the defendant. Appellee's right to recover in this Instance depends wholly upon his ability...