Schafer v. Causey
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. This was an action of ejectment brought by plaintiffs-as heirs of Ernest Koester. Defendants claimed title-through a sale and conveyance made by Schulenberg as administrator of Koester, at which sale defendants’ ancestor, Trusten Polk, purchased.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. This was an action of ejectment brought by plaintiffs-as heirs of Ernest Koester. Defendants claimed title-through a sale and conveyance made by Schulenberg as administrator of Koester, at which sale defendants’ ancestor, Trusten Polk, purchased. In their answer defendants pleaded that it was believed that the administrator’s-deed did not pass the title because the notice of the sale-was published in a German newspaper, and the sale was approved at the term of court during which it was made; and then set forth that a small part only of the purchase pnce…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The conclusion reached by the trial court as well as that of the St. Louis court of appeals, applied to the facts in evidence the familiar principles heretofore announced by this court in the cases of Valle v. Fleming, 29 Mo. 152; Shroyer v. Nickell, 55 Mo. 264; s. c., 67 Mo. 589; Jones v. Manly, 58 Mo. 559; Huff v. Price, 50 Mo. 228; Evans v. Snyder, 64 Mo. 516. And the payment of taxes on the land bought at the void administration *367sale, falls as clearly within the principle announced in the cases cited, and. entitles the purchaser at such sale to the same measure of equitable relief as for…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Vallé's Heirs v. Fleming's HeirsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1859
- Shroyer v. NickellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- Evans v. SnyderSupreme Court of Missouri · 1877
- Jones v. ManlySupreme Court of Missouri · 1875
- Shroyer v. NickellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1878
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- Cunningham v. AndersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1891
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