Renard v. Butler

Suit in partition. The court sustained demurrers to the petition. On refusal to further plead, judgment was entered for defendants, and plaintiff appealed.

This is a companion case to Bock et al. v. Whelan et al., 30 S. W. (2d) 607. The parties to and the land involved in these partition suits are identical. The plaintiff trustee in bankruptcy in this case is a defendant trustee in bankruptcy in the Bock case.

On ruling the demurrers, the court held that appellant, under our partition statute, was without legal capacity to sue.

Appellant cites Byars v. Howe, 311 Mo. 14, 286 S. W. 43, as…