Sauer v. Griffin

On Motion for Rehearing.

Hough, J.

— The statute referred to in the motion for a rehearing, which has been filed in this cause, was not overlooked by us in arriving at the conclusion heretofore announced. The sections referred to have been in force certainly since 1845, and perhaps from an earlier date, and they are evidently the provisions referred to by Judge Scott in his opinion in Whittelsey v. Brohammer, 31 Mo. 107, as having been inadvertently adopted in this State without the necessary supplemental legislation. Section 7 of the statute of uses and trusts (Wag. Stat., page 1352) declares…