Cravens v. Rossiter
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Greene Circuit Court. (1) It is the law of this state, that where a conveyance is delivered to the recorder of deeds for the purpose of having the same recorded, it is a delivery to the grantee. ’ In all such' cases an assent and acceptanee by the grantee is presumed, where the instrument is on its face beneficial to the grantee, until an actual •dissent is shown. Major v. Hill, 13 Mo. 248; Pearce v. Banforth, 13 Mo. 360; Lumber Co. v. Anderson, 13 Mo.
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Appeal from Greene Circuit Court. (1) It is the law of this state, that where a conveyance is delivered to the recorder of deeds for the purpose of having the same recorded, it is a delivery to the grantee. ’ In all such' cases an assent and acceptanee by the grantee is presumed, where the instrument is on its face beneficial to the grantee, until an actual •dissent is shown. Major v. Hill, 13 Mo. 248; Pearce v. Banforth, 13 Mo. 360; Lumber Co. v. Anderson, 13 Mo. App. 434; Lnsioorth v. King, 50 Mo. 482; Rogers v. ■Cary, 47 Mo. 235; Btirhe v. Adams, 80 Mo. 504; Hall v. Hall, 107 Mo. 101;…
1Opinion of the Court
Black, .P. J.
This was ejectment for a lot in the city of Springfield. E. T. Robberson conveyed the property to Lemuel Rossiter by a deed dated the twenty-first of April, 1887. The plaintiffs put in evidence a sheriff’s deed to them dated the tenth of June, 1889, based upon a judgment rendered by the circuit court against Lemuel Rossiter on the nineteenth of December, 1888. The title of the defendant is a deed to him from Lemuel Rossiter dated the thirteenth and recorded the fifteenth of December, 1888. Though the deed from Lemuel to 'William Rossiter bears date and, was recorded a few days…
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