Crittenden v. Leitensdorfer
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. The appellant contends that the sheriff’s deed to him vested in him all the interest that Eugene Leitensdorfer had in the property conveyed, at the time the attachments were levied.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. The appellant contends that the sheriff’s deed to him vested in him all the interest that Eugene Leitensdorfer had in the property conveyed, at the time the attachments were levied. That the partition in a suit instituted March 18, 1852, was wholly inoperative so far as the appellant is concerned ; that appellant’s title was derived under judgments and executions in suits by attachment, suits instituted in the month of February, 1849; that the property was attached in said month of February, and that the attachments were a lien upon the property…
1Opinion of the CourtBates, Judge
This is a suit for partition. The plaintiff claimed to represent and own the interest of Eugene Leitensdorfer, one of the sons of John Eugene Leitensdorfer, deceased, in several different tracts of land; and that the defendants, who are the widow and other children of said John Eugene, owned the other undivided interests in said tracts. The plaintiff derived his title through several sheriff’s deeds, and at the trial of the case, after instructions had been given by the court, he took a non-suit, and after an ineffectual motion to set it aside, brings the case to this court.
1. The court gave…
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