Detmer v. Salinger

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The defendant appeals from adverse decrees touching the foreclosure of certain mortgages. The facts of these cases present a comedy of errors. William Thompson owned in fee simple the land in controversy. The Oakwood Drug Company was chartered under the laws of Missouri “for the purpose of carrying on a general retail drug business in Kansas City, Missouri,” and to that end owning and conducting retail drug stores in different parts of Kansas .City, Mo., for profit. Whether dr not it had any legal authority to deal in real estate, it did on…