Legal Opinion

Vanstone v. Goodwin

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided November 10, 1890PublishedCited by 20 opinions

Error to the Saline Circuit Court. — Hon. Richard Field, Judge. (1) Under the statute of this state, the money given by Mrs. Robinson to her daughter, the plaintiff, became the separate property of plaintiff ; and the contract made between plaintiff and her husband in relation to it was good in equity as between them. Roberts v. Walker, 82 Mo. 200 ; Hammonds v. Renfrow, 84 Mo. 332; Walsh v. Chambers, 13 Mo. App. 301; Simmons v. Bent, 16 Mo.

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Error to the Saline Circuit Court. — Hon. Richard Field, Judge. (1) Under the statute of this state, the money given by Mrs. Robinson to her daughter, the plaintiff, became the separate property of plaintiff ; and the contract made between plaintiff and her husband in relation to it was good in equity as between them. Roberts v. Walker, 82 Mo. 200 ; Hammonds v. Renfrow, 84 Mo. 332; Walsh v. Chambers, 13 Mo. App. 301; Simmons v. Bent, 16 Mo. App. 288. (2) The written contract read in evidence dated December 6, 1884, written by defendant, VanAnglen, and left with him by defendant Vanstone, was…

1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.

This was a suit, equitable in its nature, brought by the plaintiff against defendants in the circuit court of Saline county, where defendant had judgment, and plaintiff brings the case here by writ of error. The petition in substance alleged that defendant Yanstone, the plaintiff’s husband, in the year 1884, executed and delivered to plaintiff his promissory noté for eighteen hundred dollars, and that he was then the owner of twenty shares of the capital stock of the First National Bank of Marshall, of which said bank the other two defendants, Goodwin and Yan Anglen, were respectively…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ells v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1890

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Pierce v. National Bank of CommerceCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1920
  2. Bank of Atchison v. DurfeeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
  3. Duncan v. KellyMissouri Court of Appeals · 1968
  4. Polski v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1915
  5. In re BaconCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1913

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