Gawtry v. Adams

The petition shows that T. W. Johnston sued the petitioners, Ann E. Gawtry and William M. Gawtry, her husband and trustee, in the St. Louis Circuit Court, for the purpose of charging the wife’s separate estate with the payment of a promissory note executed by the petitioners ; that at the December term, 1880, the court rendered a judgment, or decree, ascertaining that the sum due to the plaintiff was $12,546.71, and directing that the real estate *30described in the judgment be sold to satisfy the same; that during the same term the petitioners applied for an appeal to the St. Louis Court of…