Dudley v. Clark
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Audrain Circuit Court — Hon. James D. Barnett, Judge. * (1) Under and by virtue of the terms of the deed from Barnett to plaintiff’s ancestors, and from the fact that the grantees in said deed furnished the purchase price for the land, the grantees took a title in fee simple to said lands.
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Appeal from Audrain Circuit Court — Hon. James D. Barnett, Judge. * (1) Under and by virtue of the terms of the deed from Barnett to plaintiff’s ancestors, and from the fact that the grantees in said deed furnished the purchase price for the land, the grantees took a title in fee simple to said lands. Draper v. Minor, 36 Mo. 290. Independent of the fact that plaintiffs’ ancestors paid for the land with their own funds and were never repaid by the church, the title to the lands, upon the death of the trustees named in the deed passed to the plaintiffs as heirs of the said.trustees. Ewing v.…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
Plaintiffs (as heirs of a group of church trustees, as presently appears) sue in the Au-drain Circuit Court in two counts, one in ejectment and one under former section 650 to quiet title — the property in dispute being lot one of block eighteen in the town of Mexico in Audrain county. There were two defendants, one was dismissed and the answer of the other, S. Margaretha R. Clark, is first a general denial, then she pleads her own title and follows that by a plea of the thirty-year Statute of Limitation, and title by limitation under the “general laws” of Missouri, averring, among other…
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