Barnum v. Barnum

This is an action in equity begun in the circuit court of Pettis county, September 12, 1912, against the defendant Sarah L. Barnum, to rescind a contract for the sale of personal property. Before trial the court, over the objection of plaintiff, sustained a motion of defendant that she be made a party in her representative capacities of administratrix of her deceased husband’s estate and of guardian and curatrix of the persons and estates of their two minor children. After hearing the evidence the court rendered judgment dismissing plaintiff’s bill for want of equity. Plaintiff appealed.

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