Anderson v. Ragan
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. J. H. Sloveb, Judge. (1) Equity courts have jurisdiction of partition cases. 1 Story Eq. Jur., secs. 646, 658, and cases cited ; Saving Inst. v. Collonms, 63 Mo. 290 ; Edioards v. Phillips, 73 Mo. 60; Spitz v. Wells, 18 Mo. 468. (2) And the chancellor’s finding of “fact” is reviewable in the appellate court.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. J. H. Sloveb, Judge. (1) Equity courts have jurisdiction of partition cases. 1 Story Eq. Jur., secs. 646, 658, and cases cited ; Saving Inst. v. Collonms, 63 Mo. 290 ; Edioards v. Phillips, 73 Mo. 60; Spitz v. Wells, 18 Mo. 468. (2) And the chancellor’s finding of “fact” is reviewable in the appellate court. Hardware Co. v. Wolters, 91 Mo. 484; State ex rel. v. Hurlstone, 92 Mo. 332 ; Murphy v. Murphy, 1 Mo.. 741 ; Bender v. Maride, 37 Mo.. App. 242. (3) And the appellate court, in such cases, will weigh the evidence to see that substantial justice is…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
Joseph C. Anderson died intestate at his residence, near Big Blue River, about six miles east of the center of Kansas City, in Jackson county, Missouri, in 1884, owner of the tract of land containing seventy-five and three-tenths acres ; he left as his only heirs at law seven children: Jerome, Mattie, George F., Emily, Charley, Ella and William, the last four of whom are infants. The estate was duly administered, and Jerome sold his interest in the realty to S. C. Schaefer, who subsequently transferred it to McKinney and Munford.
*409At the January term, 1888, of the Jackson county circuit court,…
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