Greening v. Steele
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Daviess Circuit Court. — Hon. C. H. S. Goodman, Judge. (1) The contract signed by both Steele and Greening is full and complete, and no additional stipulations could be engrafted upon it without Steele’s consent. Pearson v. Carson, 69 Mo. 550; Robinson v. Jarvis, 25 Mo.
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Error to Daviess Circuit Court. — Hon. C. H. S. Goodman, Judge. (1) The contract signed by both Steele and Greening is full and complete, and no additional stipulations could be engrafted upon it without Steele’s consent. Pearson v. Carson, 69 Mo. 550; Robinson v. Jarvis, 25 Mo. App. 451. (2) Where a contract is plain and complete in itself, and is not procured by fraud or deceit, the person making it can not be heard to say that he did not enter into such contract, but a different one. Hais v. Wamsley, 32 Mo. App. 115. (3) The written contract set forth in the defendant’s answer, not being…
1Opinion of the CourtMacearlane, J.
This is a suit in equity the purpose of which is to cancel a certain deed made by plaintiff to defendant to eighty acres of land in Daviess county. The petition charges, in substance, that, after negotiations for an exchange of the eighty acres of land owned by plaintiff, for two hundred and forty acres of land owned by defendant, situate in the state of Kansas, an agreement was reached by which the exchange could be effected, provided the Kansas land answered the description, in quality and improvements thereon, as represented by defendant, and to determine which plaintiff was to examine the…
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