Wainwright v. Rowland
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was a suit for partition against the heirs of Ellis Wainwright,. Plaintiff, to show title in himself, introduced a decree in a suit in chancery, commenced in the year 1849, in which the plaintiff in this suit was complainant, and the heirs of said Ellis Wainwright defendants. By this decree an undivided interest of one-half in the premises in controversy in the present suit was vested in the complainant.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was a suit for partition against the heirs of Ellis Wainwright,. Plaintiff, to show title in himself, introduced a decree in a suit in chancery, commenced in the year 1849, in which the plaintiff in this suit was complainant, and the heirs of said Ellis Wainwright defendants. By this decree an undivided interest of one-half in the premises in controversy in the present suit was vested in the complainant. In the bill in chancery, which was for the specific performance of an agreement to convey, the complainant set forth that in the year 1848, by previous…
1Opinion of the Court
RylaND, . Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit for partition of a certain lot of ground lying in block No. 39 in the city of St. Louis, being the whole of the north-east quarter of said block 39, except twenty-three feet front on Main street, by sixty-two feet two inches on Almond street in depth. The plaintiff says he is owner in fee of one equal undivided half of said lot of ground. He alleges that he had erected a house upon the lot of ground held in common with consent of his co-tenant, and by his own means. He asks that this part of the lot on which he had built his…
2Cited by1 opinion
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