Meads v. Hutchinson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Cowrt. — Hon. J. H. Slovee, ' Judge. (1) If the property in question was simply the legal estate of Mrs. McFarland, she, by joining her husband, might convey an absolute title thereto. Revised Statutes, 1889, sec. 2396. (2) A mortgage when conforming to the requirements- of the statute for the conveyance of her legal estate, made upon property held as her. legal estate and to secure her note, is valid, although the note is absolutely void.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Cowrt. — Hon. J. H. Slovee, ' Judge. (1) If the property in question was simply the legal estate of Mrs. McFarland, she, by joining her husband, might convey an absolute title thereto. Revised Statutes, 1889, sec. 2396. (2) A mortgage when conforming to the requirements- of the statute for the conveyance of her legal estate, made upon property held as her. legal estate and to secure her note, is valid, although the note is absolutely void. Wilcox v. Todd, 64 Mo. 388; Thornton v. Bank, 71 Mo. 221; Hagermm v. Sutton, 91 Mo. 519; Bines v. Mansfield, 96 Mo. 394. And…
1Opinion of the CourtMacfarlane, J.
-Action of ejectment commenced August 1, 1888. Petition in the usual form and answer a general denial. The land plaintiffs seek to -recover is lot 11 and eight and one-half feet off the south side of lot 12, block 16, Peery Place, in Kansas City. They claim title as heirs-at-law of Sue B. McFarland. George *626G-. Rounds, the common source of title, on the twenty-fifth of June, 1872, conveyed the land to Sue B. McFarland, then wife of Houston McFarland, by deed of general warranty. This deed created no separate estate in the grantee. On June 3, 1872, the said Sue B. McFarland alone executed and…
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