Jackson v. Bowles
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from • Cooper Circuit Court. — Hon. G. W. Miller, Judge. John Cosgrove for appellants, made tbe following, among other points : At the death of Fanny Bowles the title of the real estate in question vested in appellants by operation of law. (Wag. Stat., p. 529, § 1.) They owed Jackson nothing at that time. More than two months afterwards they gave their note to Jackson and took up her note.
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Appeal from • Cooper Circuit Court. — Hon. G. W. Miller, Judge. John Cosgrove for appellants, made tbe following, among other points : At the death of Fanny Bowles the title of the real estate in question vested in appellants by operation of law. (Wag. Stat., p. 529, § 1.) They owed Jackson nothing at that time. More than two months afterwards they gave their note to Jackson and took up her note. Certainly there was no debt owing by them to respondents at the time they became seized of the premises in suit. Their deed, so to speak, is of date at the death of their mother. Hence Shindler v.…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
— This is an action of ejectment to recover *612part of lot 5 in the city of Boonville. The answer of defendants admits that they were in possession of the property, but denies the right of plaintiffs to recover, and alleges that plaintiffs’ claim to said property is founded on a purchase made by them in October, 1874, at a sale made by the sheriff of Cooper county, under an execution issued on a judgment against defendants and in favor of plaintiff Jackson; that at the date of the levy and sale by the sheriff they were entitled to hold and claim the said premises as a homestead; that they wore…
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