Stewart v. Wood
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Vernon County Circuit Court. I. The vendor held the legal title to the land in trust for the plaintiff. And Virgil O. Wood, having taken with knowledge of plaintiff’s right, held subject to the same trusts. (Gibson vs. Lair, 37 Mo. 188 ; Mechanics Bank vs. Seton, 1 Pet. 299; 2 Mad. Ch. 126 ; Cordova vs. Hood, 17 Wal. 1; Majors vs. Buckley, 51 Mo. 227; 1 Mad. Ch. 364.) IX.
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Error to Vernon County Circuit Court. I. The vendor held the legal title to the land in trust for the plaintiff. And Virgil O. Wood, having taken with knowledge of plaintiff’s right, held subject to the same trusts. (Gibson vs. Lair, 37 Mo. 188 ; Mechanics Bank vs. Seton, 1 Pet. 299; 2 Mad. Ch. 126 ; Cordova vs. Hood, 17 Wal. 1; Majors vs. Buckley, 51 Mo. 227; 1 Mad. Ch. 364.) IX. Plaintiff having purchased and paid for the land, and Robert Wood having put it out of his power to convey title thereto, to plaintiff, the latter was entitled to a lien for the purchase money, not only against his…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Judge
In November, 1859, the defendant, Robert Wood, sold to the plaintiff, Stewart, two hundred and five acres and a fraction of land, lying in the county of Bates, Missouri, for the sum of two thousand and fifty dollars. Of this amount, Stewart paid at the date of sale one thousand dollars in cash, and executed his notes for the remainder, payable in one and two years, and received from Wood a bond for title. In March, 1861, these notes were transferred by Wood to Chas. G. and P. B. Snyder, to whom they-were paid by Stewart, in the spring of 1866. On the 20th of October, 1865, Stewart, being then…
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