Field v. Stagg
Supreme Court of Missouri
fLppeal from 8t. Louis Circuit Court. I. The central question in this case is, where a deed of conveyance is executed in blank as to the grantee, and then delivered in that condition to a third person, and without authority under seal from him who executed it, and in his absence such third person fills the blank and delivers the deed : , — Whether such deed with its covenants is valid or void.
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fLppeal from 8t. Louis Circuit Court. I. The central question in this case is, where a deed of conveyance is executed in blank as to the grantee, and then delivered in that condition to a third person, and without authority under seal from him who executed it, and in his absence such third person fills the blank and delivers the deed : , — Whether such deed with its covenants is valid or void. In this State the question is res integra — The court in passing on it will neither be enlightened nor embarrassed by any former adjudications of this court, and therefore free to follow the rule of the…
1Opinion of the Court
V”oríes, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff was the owner of certain lots in the City of St. Louis, upon which there existed certain mortgages or deeds of trust given by plaintiff to secure .the aggregate sum of over three thousand dolla2’s. Th^petition in this action charges, that plaintiff contracted with defendant to sell defendant said land or lots, and to convey the same to him in consideration of an amount named and in further consideration that defendant assumed to pay and discharge the incumbrances on said lots. That after the agreements were so made, and the…
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