Buren v. Buren
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court. — Hon. S. A. Richardson, Judge. This suit was brought by Cosby Burén in Cctoher, 1865, against the defendants Eliza Bnren and Mary Berry to divest title out of defendants and vest it in plaintiff, and a judgment was rendered for plaintiff in 1866. In February, 1880, this judgment was set aside on motion of defendant Eliza, for the reason that prior to the institution of the suit she had intermarried with and was then the wife of another…
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Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court. — Hon. S. A. Richardson, Judge. This suit was brought by Cosby Burén in Cctoher, 1865, against the defendants Eliza Bnren and Mary Berry to divest title out of defendants and vest it in plaintiff, and a judgment was rendered for plaintiff in 1866. In February, 1880, this judgment was set aside on motion of defendant Eliza, for the reason that prior to the institution of the suit she had intermarried with and was then the wife of another Burén. When that judgment was set aside the plaintiff Coshy and her grantee, Ward, joined in an amended petition, and upon…
1Opinion of the Court
Ewing, C.
This was a petition in the nature of a hill in equity to divest the defendants of the title to certain land and vest it in the plaintiff Ward.
The petition states substantially: That on and prior *539to January 1st, 1855, the plaintiff Cosby Burén was the widow of Buren, deceased, and was on the 29th day of May, 1855, occupying with her children the mansion house of her husband, and the plantation thereto belonging, no dower having been assigned to her out of his lands; that prior to the 29th day of May, 1855, she was desirous of entering, under the Graduation Act of the congress of the…
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