Modrell v. Riddle
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court. — IIon. ¥m. H. Sherman, Judge. Plaintiffs read in evidence a deed containing covenants of general wai’ranty, executed March 29th, 1865, by Uriah Griffith and wife to Hardin Riddle and Mary Riddle conveying the land described in the petition.
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Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court. — IIon. ¥m. H. Sherman, Judge. Plaintiffs read in evidence a deed containing covenants of general wai’ranty, executed March 29th, 1865, by Uriah Griffith and wife to Hardin Riddle and Mary Riddle conveying the land described in the petition. This deed was duly recorded April 8th, 1865. Plaintiffs further offered oral evidence to the effect that Mary Riddle furnished the money to pay for the land in question, and that she objected to the deed to Hardin Riddle and herself, and wanted the deed made to herself alone, giving her husband, Hardin Riddle, only a…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
This is an equitable proceeding brought in 1880 by plaintiffs as the children and heirs at law of Mary Riddle by a former husband, Modrell, and as the children and heirs at law of Mary Riddle by her second husband, Hardin Riddle. Mary Riddle died in 1867. Hardin Riddle married again. He died in 1878, leaving his wife, Ann Riddle, and child, Ellen Riddle, who are defendants herein. Plaintiffs seek to correct an alleged mistake made in a deed executed in 1865 by Griffith and wife to Hardin Riddle and wife, Mary Riddle, and which conveyed to them certain land in Buchanan county. The petition…
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