Josephine Hospital Corporation v. Modoc Realty Co.

Suit in equity to cancel a deed to real estate, and for other relief. From the judgment of the trial court dismissing* its petition, plaintiff has appealed.

In substance, the petition alleged that plaintiff is a corporation, organized under Chapter 10, Article XXXIII, Revised Statutes 1909, to conduct a hospital, and that defendant Modoc Realty Company is a Missouri business corporation; that on June 6, 1903, one Josephine M. Heitkamp (hereafter referred to as “testatrix”) made and executed a ninety-nine-year lease covering the real estate in the city of St. Louis here involved, to John P.…