Davies v. Keiser

This action was for the purpose of partitioning certain real estate in the city of St. Louis, and to secure an accounting for the rents and profits arising therefrom. There was a trial before the court, resulting in favor of the plaintiff, from which the defendant appeals.

In the fall of 1906 P. F. Vander Lippe was in the real estate and loan business in the city of St. Louis. John Davies was an architect and a builder. E. H, Keiser, the defendant herein, had for many years prior and subsequent to 1906 been building houses, selling them and investing in real estate mortgag.es, stocks and other…