Sturgeon v. Mudd
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Audrain Circuit Court. — Son E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) The price paid was grossly inadequate. Judge Kendall’s testimony would place the value of the farm at $6,600. Mr. Mudd himself says he would not take $6,000 for it. Wanted it, he said, for his grandson.
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Error to Audrain Circuit Court. — Son E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) The price paid was grossly inadequate. Judge Kendall’s testimony would place the value of the farm at $6,600. Mr. Mudd himself says he would not take $6,000 for it. Wanted it, he said, for his grandson. (2) Plaintiff was at defendant’s mercy; first, because of the chain of deception by which he led plaintiff on from day to day while the advertisement was running, and finally broke off all negotiations on the day before the sale; second, the Clyce mortgage rendered it impossible for plaintiff to procure a loan elsewhere, and would…
1Opinion of the Court
MARSHALL, J. —
This is a bill in equity for leave to redeem two hundred and twenty acres of land lying in Audrain county, Missouri, and being the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, the northwest *203quarter of the southeast quarter, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and the south half of the northwest quarter of section 33, township 51, range 5 west. The circuit court dismissed the plaintiff’s hill and gave judgment in favor of the defendant on his counter-claim, and after proper steps the plaintiff appealed.
THE ISSUES.
The gist of the' petition is, that in the year 1893, the…
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