Rumsey v. Otis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Nodaway Circuit Court. — Hon. C. A. Anthony, Judge. (1) There was a sufficient delivery of the Stringer deed so as to pass the title to Tama Otis and appellants’ fourth instruction as asked should have been given. Parker v. Parker, 8 N. W. Rep. (Iowa) 806. That case is in many respects similar to this.
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Appeal from Nodaway Circuit Court. — Hon. C. A. Anthony, Judge. (1) There was a sufficient delivery of the Stringer deed so as to pass the title to Tama Otis and appellants’ fourth instruction as asked should have been given. Parker v. Parker, 8 N. W. Rep. (Iowa) 806. That case is in many respects similar to this. There the court say: “The delivery of the deed to plaintiff with the intention that it should take effect as a conveyance operated to divest Peters of his title to the property; and as title must vest somewhere and could vest in no one except the grantee named in the deed it follows…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
Less than three acres of land of the yearly rental value of $1.50 an acre is the bone of this contention. Plaintiff sues her brother, the defendant in ejectment, for an undivided one seventh of the south half of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 30, township 66, range 34, Nodaway county.
In 1864, Thomas Stringer, living in Illinois, owned this land in Nodaway county, Missouri. Merrill Otis and Tama Otis were the father and mother of plaintiff Sarah Rumsey. Merrill Otis and his wife and children were nonresidents. Edward Otis, a brother of Merrill Otis, lived in Nodaway…
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