Scholten v. Barber

On January 17, 1894, the appellant, Mary A. Scholten, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, executed her promissory note to George N. Cooper, of said city, for $5000, payable five years after date, and secured the same by a trust deed upon certain real estate in said city. She after-wards conveyed the property to Charles Dexter, and in the conveyance he assumed the payment of the encumbrance. The note was assigned by Cooper to Rosa Barber, the appellee. There were several subsequent conveyances of the property by quit-claim deeds containing no assumption of the mortgage debt,…