# Bales v. Butts

> Supreme Court of Missouri · June 5, 1925 · 309 Mo. 142

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3522608

## Case

- **Full name:** JOHN P. BALES and IDA BALES v. CHARLES W. BUTTS and SARAH BUTTS, Appellants
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Missouri
- **Decided:** June 5, 1925
- **Citations:** 309 Mo. 142; 274 S.W. 679; 1925 Mo. LEXIS 493
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Addendum
- **Judges:** Eigbee, Railey
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3522608

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding owner’s attempt to create easement failed because “[s]o long as these lots belonged to the same owner, there could be no easement in favor of one lot, or servitude upon the other, for a man cannot have an easement over his own land”
- recognizing that as long as the lots belonged to the same owner, there could be no easement in favor of one lot, or servitude upon the other

## Opinion text

The foregoing opinion of RAILEY, C., is adopted as the opinion of the court. All of the judges concur.

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