Clark v. Covenant Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jlppeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. I. Equity will not interfere except where the party is in possession, and there is no allegation to that effect in the petition, (Apperson vs. Ford, 23 Ark., 746 ; Harris vs. Smith, 2 Dana, 11; Alton M. & F. Ins.
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Jlppeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. I. Equity will not interfere except where the party is in possession, and there is no allegation to that effect in the petition, (Apperson vs. Ford, 23 Ark., 746 ; Harris vs. Smith, 2 Dana, 11; Alton M. & F. Ins. Co. vs. Buckmaster, 13 111., 205 ; Ward vs. Dewey, 16 N. Y., 529 ; Orton vs. Smith, 18 How., 265 ; Armitage vs. Wickliffe, 12 B. Mon., 494; Hay-thorn vs. Margerem, 3 Halst. ch., 342; see also, Lake Bigler Eoad Co., vs. Bedford, 2 Nev„, 399; Moran vs. Palmer, 13 Mich., 367.) II. The petition alleges that the plaintiffs are husband-and wife, and…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
This was a suit in the nature of a bill in equity to remove a cloud from the title of the plaintiff Maria L. Clark, to certain land in the City of St. Louis. The petition alleged that the plaintiff Maria L., who is the wife of the other plaintiff, was at the time of the bringing of the suit and for a long time had been the sole owner of the land, that on the 15th of March, 1869, some person unknown, without the knowledge of the plaintiff, falsely personated the plaintiff Maria L., and made in her name alone a forged deed to one Newman, purporting thereby to convey to said Newman the land,…
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