Cunningham v. Gray
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jlppeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action brought by Cunningham to obtain the legal title and the possession of a lot of ground in the city of St. Louis, which he claimed under a sheriff’s deed, by purchase at a sale under an execution against William T. Gray, upon a judgment rendered February 6, 1850. The record did not show at what time the debt accrued, upon which this judgment was founded.
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Jlppeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action brought by Cunningham to obtain the legal title and the possession of a lot of ground in the city of St. Louis, which he claimed under a sheriff’s deed, by purchase at a sale under an execution against William T. Gray, upon a judgment rendered February 6, 1850. The record did not show at what time the debt accrued, upon which this judgment was founded. The lot was, by William G. Wright and wife, conveyed to Joseph B. Holland, by deed dated January 8th, 1851, in trust for the sole use of the wife of Gray. The plaintiff, claiming…
1Opinion of the CourtRyland, Judge
The questions in this case arise upon the instructions given by the court below. These instructions involve the construe*172tion of a statute of our state, passed by the legislature, and’ approved 5th March, 1849, which took effect from its passage. It is entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to regulate executions.’ ” The provisions of this act, so far as it is necessary to notice them in this case, are as follows :
§1. “ In addition to the property now exempt from levy and sale under execution, by the tenth, eleventh and twelfth sections of the act of which this is amendatory, the…
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