Cavender v. Waddingham
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. Want of title or authority to convey is a good defence to this action. — Luclcett v. Williamson, 31 Mo. 57 ; 1 Sugden on Tend. 125, note*; Id. 400, note q; Steinhauer v. Whitman, 1 Serg. 6 R. 438 ; Roland v. Miller, 3 Watts & S. 390 ; Ilerrod v. Blackburn, 56 Pa. St. 103; Pyrlce v. Waddingham, 17 Eng. Law &Eq. 538, 541; 3 Pars, on Con.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. Want of title or authority to convey is a good defence to this action. — Luclcett v. Williamson, 31 Mo. 57 ; 1 Sugden on Tend. 125, note*; Id. 400, note q; Steinhauer v. Whitman, 1 Serg. 6 R. 438 ; Roland v. Miller, 3 Watts & S. 390 ; Ilerrod v. Blackburn, 56 Pa. St. 103; Pyrlce v. Waddingham, 17 Eng. Law &Eq. 538, 541; 3 Pars, on Con. (6th ed.) 378, 380. An instruction that, to avoid a contract on the ground of drunkenness, the drunkenness must be excessive and absolute, is bad. — Thomas v. Bobb, 45 Mo. 388 ; Barrett v. Buxton, 2 Aik. 171; Foot v.…
1Opinion of the CourtBakewell, J.
This action is by real-estate brokers against their principal, for damages caused by his act depriving them of their commissions earned whilst in his employment. The allegations of the petition are, that plaintiffs are copartners as real-estate brokers; that, on Feb. 28, 1874, defendant employed them to purchase for him, from John A. and W. H. Scudder, trustees of Henry Ames, a lot in blocks '23 and 24 of St. Louis, fronting 183-fV feet on Main Street by 142t32- deep, on which is situated the Ames pork-house ; that defendant instructed plaintiffs to effect a purchase of this property within…
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