Leslie v. Carter
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. J. J). Perkins, Judge: The defendant being at the time the trusted agent of the plaintiff and having betrayed his trust as such agent, and wrongfully placed a cloud upon her title to' said real estate, she was entitled to recover and is now entitled to recover the reasonable and proper expenses incurred by her in the employment of attorneys in the trial court and in the Supreme Court, to which Byrd and Carter appealed.
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Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. J. J). Perkins, Judge: The defendant being at the time the trusted agent of the plaintiff and having betrayed his trust as such agent, and wrongfully placed a cloud upon her title to' said real estate, she was entitled to recover and is now entitled to recover the reasonable and proper expenses incurred by her in the employment of attorneys in the trial court and in the Supreme Court, to which Byrd and Carter appealed. State ex rel. v. Tittman, 134 Mo. 162; MeGaw v. Acker, Merrall & Condit Co., 73 Atl. 731; Bank v. Williams, 62 Kan. 431; Chesebro v.…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
— This is an action to recover the expenses of litigation, including attorneys’ fees, alleged to have been incurred by the plaintiff in a former proceeding against the defendant to set aside a deed for fraud, and for an accounting. • In the latter action, brought, as was the one at bar, in the circuit court of Jasper County, plaintiff had judgment, and upon an appeal to this court the same was affirmed except as to a correction in the allowance of interest. [240 Mo. 552.]
Defendant demurred to the petition filed in the suit at bar and from the judgment sustaining this de'inurrer plaintiff…
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