Turner v. Shaw
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Louisiana Court of Common Pleas.— Hon. Elijah Robinson, Judge. Plaintiff’s title rests exclusively upon the fact that the lots in'question were conveyed by John F. Turner on the fifth day of June, 1861, to his wife, Sarah Ann Turner, and that she died intestate without ever having made a valid conveyance of her title to any one.
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Appeal from Louisiana Court of Common Pleas.— Hon. Elijah Robinson, Judge. Plaintiff’s title rests exclusively upon the fact that the lots in'question were conveyed by John F. Turner on the fifth day of June, 1861, to his wife, Sarah Ann Turner, and that she died intestate without ever having made a valid conveyance of her title to any one. Upon the face of this whole case it is apparent that this was a family arrangement growing out of the peculiar condition of the country and the times. It is not complicated by the rights of intervening creditors, nor by questions of subsequent purchasers…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
Ejectment for an undivided one-sixth. part of lots 519 and 520 in block 65, in the city of Louisiana, Pike county, Mo.
The plaintiff and defendant are brother and sister, •children and heirs-at-law of their father and mother, Jno. P. and Sarah Ann Turner. The answer was a general denial, with a statement of special matters of defense set out at length, alleging that John P. Turner, deceased, the common source of title, being a southern sympathizer, and alarmed at the condition of the country, in June, 1861, executed a deed of conveyance to the property in question to his wife, Sarah Ann…
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