Taylor v. Cayce
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Francois Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Fox, Judge. (1) The combination of circumstances and influences, under which appellant gave the quit-claim deed to respondent, made that, conveyance a fraud on his rights.
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Appeal from, St. Francois Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Fox, Judge. (1) The combination of circumstances and influences, under which appellant gave the quit-claim deed to respondent, made that, conveyance a fraud on his rights. That conveyance was the result of appellant’s surprise, of his ignorance or mistake concerning his title, his overweening confidence in respondent, respondent’s representations concerning the price the company was giving for the lands, and other circumstances operating in symphony. In compassing this result, respondent had, and was a controlling agency, had, under the…
1Per curiam
By this proceeding, appellant seeks to recover of respondent the proceeds of sale of certain lands.
The appellant’s petition asserts his former owner-shin of the lands and that he made a quit-claim deed of *246them to respondent who thereafter sold them with other lands to the Iron Mountain Company. Without reciting the allegations of the petition at length, it will be sufficient to note the facts on which appellant predicates his prayer for relief against the effect of his quit claim so given. He charges that “on the twenty-seventh day of June, A. D., 1882, the defendant made application to…
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- Dunn v. WhiteSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Ober v. Carson'sSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Weilandy v. LemuelSupreme Court of Missouri · 1871
- Miller v. BrenekeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1884
- Buford v. CaldwellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1834
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