Hoene v. Edward Gocke Real Estate Co.

HOSTETTER, P. J.-

This suit was instituted on the 14th day of November, 1933, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. The allegations in the-amended petition on which-the cause was tried w.ere substantially as follows: >

That defendant, a Missouri.corporation, having its-place of business in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, -was engaged in the business of owning, buying and selling real estate, promissory .notes secured- by deeds of trust on real estate, mortgages and other securities; that sometime during the month of September, 1929, plaintiff purchased from defendant a-certain…