Yeaman v. Lepp
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. — Son. Frank B. Dearing, Judge. (1) This is an equity case and the issues presented in it will be reviewed by this court as chancellors.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. — Son. Frank B. Dearing, Judge. (1) This is an equity case and the issues presented in it will be reviewed by this court as chancellors. Benne v. Schnecko, 100 Mo. 258; McElroy v. Maxwell, 101-Mo. 308. (2) The property being susceptible to division and being one tract, a portion of one section, all connected, and sued on as one tract, it was the duty of the sheriff to subdivide the land and sell only so much as was necessary to satisfy the judgment and costs. R. S.- 3899, secs. 3385 and 9375; Kelly v. Hart, 63. Mo. 463; State ex rel. v. Yancy, 61 Mo. 397;…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
This is a bill in equity to set aside a sheriff’s deed to the defendant, made under a special fi. fa. issued upon a judgment for taxes, amounting to $9.75, and costs $15.18, assessed against the south half of the northwest quarter, and southwest quarter, and west half of the southwest quarter of the. northeast quarter, of section 28, township 39, *65range 4 east, in Jefferson county, containing two hundred and sixty acres, being the property of the plaintiffs. The petition alleges that in June, 1897, the plaintiffs were made defendants in a tax suit filed in Jefferson county by the tax collector…
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