Lane v. Ewing
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. Demurrer to a .petition. The plaintiffs are William Carr Lane and Mary E. Lane, his wife; the defendant, William L. Ewing. The suit is in behalf of said Mary E. Lane.
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Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. Demurrer to a .petition. The plaintiffs are William Carr Lane and Mary E. Lane, his wife; the defendant, William L. Ewing. The suit is in behalf of said Mary E. Lane. The petition is in substance as follows, the parts in brackets being those portions stricken out on motion of defendant: that said Lane before 1838 became the owner of a large amount of real estate in the city and county of St. Louis; [that defendant Ewing is the younger brother of the plaintiff Mrs. Lane, and as such was nurtured and brought up chiefly in the family and under the protection of…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
This case was determined upon a demurrer to the petition, after a considerable portion of it had been stricken out.
The defendant, Ewing, is a brother of the plaintiff, Mrs. Lane. The plaintiff, William Carr Lane, about the year 1841, was largely indebted, and his real estate, consisting of several detached pieces of land and lots lying in and about the city of St. Louis, was sold under execution, and the defendant became the purchaser at a nominal sum. Previous to this the defendant had become liable, as security, for the payment of a debt from Dr. Lane to Mad. Berthold (the defendant’s…
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