Bobb v. Bobb
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. This was a bill in equity filed by John H. Bobb and Martrom D. Lewis, public ádministrator of the city of St. Louis, in charge of the estate of Charles L. Bobb, deceased, against Charles Bobb, Martha E. Bobb, William C. Jami-son,Jane R. Perker, George W. Cline, Thomas Howard, William H. Letcher, Marshall D. Lyle, August Jackman, Leicester Babcock, George R. Hincke, Peter W. Hincke, Levi L. Ashbrook, Frank R. McGinness, Joseph Tippett,…
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. This was a bill in equity filed by John H. Bobb and Martrom D. Lewis, public ádministrator of the city of St. Louis, in charge of the estate of Charles L. Bobb, deceased, against Charles Bobb, Martha E. Bobb, William C. Jami-son,Jane R. Perker, George W. Cline, Thomas Howard, William H. Letcher, Marshall D. Lyle, August Jackman, Leicester Babcock, George R. Hincke, Peter W. Hincke, Levi L. Ashbrook, Frank R. McGinness, Joseph Tippett, Elizabeth V. Peebles, Rufus W. Bailey, Amanda S. Rose, Louis H. Rose and Cora S. Taylor. The bill stated that in 1870 a…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
On the authority of Donovan v. Dunning, 69 Mo. 436, and other eases and authorities cited by plaintiffs, the petition is not obnoxious to the charge of multifariousness. Treating of such an objection to a bill, a writer of acknowledged authority states that the objection will not hold where the gravamen of fraud or wrong in the sales is the same and equally applies to all, notwithstanding that the defendants claim the land under distinct and separate sales of different parcels thereof to them separately. And the same distinguished jurist says : “The same principle has been supposed properly…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Donovan v. DunningSupreme Court of Missouri · 1879
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