Drew v. Platt

This suit involves the ownership of an undivided one-third interest in "a certain leasehold for an unexpired term of years of real estate and improvements at the northwest corner of Jefferson Avenue and Chestnut streets" in the city of St. Louis. The pleadings describe the real estate covered by the lease in the general terms and manner above quoted, followed by a more particular description of the property. The term of the lease is not set out and the lease was not introduced in evidence, nor does the evidence disclose the duration thereof. By the will of George I. Barnett, deceased,…