Charles Green Real Estate Co. v. St. Louis Mutual House Building Co. No. 3
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Eon. Jno. A. Blevins, Judge. (1) The exclusion of Green’s testimony was error. Clark v. Thias, 173 Mo. 628; 30 Am. and Eng. Ency.. Law (2 Ed.), 1046. (2) The exclusion of Green’s testimony injured plaintiff. Cole Co. v. Madden, 91 Mo. 585. (3) The arrangement made by the trustee with purchasers who had no interest in the proceedings save to speculate on a good bargain ought to cause a reversal of the judgment.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Eon. Jno. A. Blevins, Judge. (1) The exclusion of Green’s testimony was error. Clark v. Thias, 173 Mo. 628; 30 Am. and Eng. Ency.. Law (2 Ed.), 1046. (2) The exclusion of Green’s testimony injured plaintiff. Cole Co. v. Madden, 91 Mo. 585. (3) The arrangement made by the trustee with purchasers who had no interest in the proceedings save to speculate on a good bargain ought to cause a reversal of the judgment. Cassidy v. Wallace, 102 Mo. 581. (4) The sale ought not be upheld, but should be annulled because of the course pursued by the trustee in…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, P. J.
is a suit in equity, the purpose of which is to have set aside a sale, under a deed of trust, of certain real estate in the city of St. Louis. Charles Green was the owner of the property. On the 3rd day of August, 1896, he and his wife executed a *362deed of trust on said property to defendant Frederick A. Wislizenus, trustee, to secure the payment of a bond, therein described, for $12,083.96, with interest, for money borrowed by them from the defendant, the St. Louis Mutual House Building Co. No. 3, which deed of trust contained a provision directing a public sale of the property, by the…
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