Bell v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — How. Warwick Hough, Judge. The requirements of the law will be met if the description informs the owner and the public with reasonable certainty what property is to be sold. Doherty v. Real Est. Title, etc., Co., 85 Minn. 520; Kelly v. Sanders, 90 IT.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — How. Warwick Hough, Judge. The requirements of the law will be met if the description informs the owner and the public with reasonable certainty what property is to be sold. Doherty v. Real Est. Title, etc., Co., 85 Minn. 520; Kelly v. Sanders, 90 IT. S. 441; French v. Patterson, 61 Me. -203; Cooper v. Holmes, 71 Md. 20; Smith v. Messer, 17 N. H. 420; State, Allen, Pros. v. Woodbridge, 42 N. J. Law 401. (1) The judgment in the case of City v. Kuhn, under which appellant Johnson claims title, is void, because the order of publication which was…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodson, J.
This case originated in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, and was brought under section 650, Revised Statutes 1890; whereby plaintiff seeks to have the court adjudge that he has the fee, and that neither of the defendants has any title in and to the tract of land described in the petition, which is as follows: “A certain lot of ground in City Block 4484 of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, having a front'of fifty feet on the east line of Euclid avenue by a depth of 195 and 64-100 feet between parallel lines, and bound as follows: Beginning at a point in the east line of…
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