Ruby v. Strother
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from St. Louis Circuit Court, in Chancery. Statement of the Case. This was a bill in chancery, filed on the eighth day of March, 1827, by the appellee, an infant by next friend, against Nancy Bates, widow, and Emily, Lucius, Woodville,and Frederick Bates, infant children, heirs of Frederick Bates, deceased, to procure the specific performance of a contract of sale of land alledged to have been made by said Frederick Bates, deceased, with Pierre Chouteau, and the land…
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APPEAL from St. Louis Circuit Court, in Chancery. Statement of the Case. This was a bill in chancery, filed on the eighth day of March, 1827, by the appellee, an infant by next friend, against Nancy Bates, widow, and Emily, Lucius, Woodville,and Frederick Bates, infant children, heirs of Frederick Bates, deceased, to procure the specific performance of a contract of sale of land alledged to have been made by said Frederick Bates, deceased, with Pierre Chouteau, and the land sold by said Chouteau to the said complainant, here appellee, on which bill a subpoena issued, and was returned as…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
This cause was originally instituted and determined under the act regulating proceedings in chancery, approved 19th February, 1825. That act directed that courtshaving chancery jurisdiction should proceed according to the rules, usage and practice in courts of equity. By this provision, the Legislature contemplated a resort to the rules and practice of the English courts of chancery, for, as our system of jurisprudence is borrowed from England, when reference is made to chancery practice, it must be presumed that the statute contemplated the system that prevailed in that kingdom. The…
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