Holtschneider v. Holtschneider

CRIST, Judge.

Appellant Judith Stratman’s brothers and sisters (and brother-in-law) brought this action to cancel two deeds through which Judith and her now ex-husband (hereafter defendants) acquired plaintiffs’ undivided interests in eighty acres of what used to be the family’s two hundred acre farm in Osage County, Missouri. All plaintiffs except David Holtschneider, whose claim was held barred by the running of the period of limitations, prevailed on their claim that defendants fraudulently obtained the deeds through “misrepresentation and deceit .. . while defendants were in a confidential…