Hall v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Atchison Circuit Court. — Hon. II. S. Kelley, Judge. Respondents are the widow and minor child of P. G. Morgan, who, his wife joining, mortgaged eighty acres of land to secure a note of $500. He afterward conveyed by a general warranty deed for the expressed consideration of $1,000 one parcel of said land of forty acres to his son, who conveyed to appellant under an agreement that appellant should pay his pró rata of the mortgage.
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Appeal from, Atchison Circuit Court. — Hon. II. S. Kelley, Judge. Respondents are the widow and minor child of P. G. Morgan, who, his wife joining, mortgaged eighty acres of land to secure a note of $500. He afterward conveyed by a general warranty deed for the expressed consideration of $1,000 one parcel of said land of forty acres to his son, who conveyed to appellant under an agreement that appellant should pay his pró rata of the mortgage. The other forty acre tract was, upon the death of P. Gr. Morgan, set apart, as homestead, to respondents. Upon a judgment of foreclosure appellant’s…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
Presby C. Morgan owned two contiguous bodies of land making an eighty acre tract, which was half a mile long from east to west. He mortgaged this tract to an eastern company to secure the sum of $500, his wife relinquishing her dowér. ' Subsequently, he conveyed by warranty deed the east forty to his son “ Dick,” the consideration expressed in this deed being $1,000. Presby Gr. Morgan died. Plaintiff had a claim for, say $400, probated against his estate.
There were rumors in the community that the conveyance from the father to the son was made in fraud of creditors, but I find nothing in the…
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