Bates v. Bower
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Hannibal Court of Common Pleas. This was a petition filed by Bates to foreclose a mortgage executed by Ann Lowes, November. 1, 1845, on real estate described as follows : “ Thirty feet off of the north side of lot number three, in block number ten, on second street, and running back to the alley in said block, one hundred and forty-two feet; also five and a half feet off from the south side of lot number four, in said block ; being the same ground on which is…
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Appeal from, Hannibal Court of Common Pleas. This was a petition filed by Bates to foreclose a mortgage executed by Ann Lowes, November. 1, 1845, on real estate described as follows : “ Thirty feet off of the north side of lot number three, in block number ten, on second street, and running back to the alley in said block, one hundred and forty-two feet; also five and a half feet off from the south side of lot number four, in said block ; being the same ground on which is now erected the brick building known as the city hotel, in the city of Hannibal.” The defendant, Bower, claimed the…
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
1. There has been much embarrassment experienced by the court in the decision of cases which come from the circuit and other courts, where the trials have been by the courts without juries. In a very large number of cases, the courts have entirely failed to find the facts as required by the fifteenth article of the code, and in others the finding of the facts is very imperfect. In very many cases, where the court has found the facts and the party has sought a review of the finding, or a *552review of the law, there has been but a very imperfect compliance with the provisions of the code relating…
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