McKee v. Downing
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Nodaway Circuit Court. — Row. Wm. C. Ellison, Judge. (1) The administrator of the estate of Susanna Downing, deceased, was a necessary party plaintiff to the action. McMillan v. Wacker, 57 Mo. App. 220; Adey v. Adey, 58 Mo. App. 408; Butler v. Lawson, 72 Mo. 227. (2) Plaintiffs’ cause of action, if any existed, was barred by the Statute of Limitations. Sec. 4281, R. S. 1899; Rosenberger v. Mallerson, 92 Mo.
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Appeal from Nodaway Circuit Court. — Row. Wm. C. Ellison, Judge. (1) The administrator of the estate of Susanna Downing, deceased, was a necessary party plaintiff to the action. McMillan v. Wacker, 57 Mo. App. 220; Adey v. Adey, 58 Mo. App. 408; Butler v. Lawson, 72 Mo. 227. (2) Plaintiffs’ cause of action, if any existed, was barred by the Statute of Limitations. Sec. 4281, R. S. 1899; Rosenberger v. Mallerson, 92 Mo. App. 27. (3) Plaintiffs cannot, by electing to take a resulting trust in lands, growing out of the investment of personal property in said lands, evade tlie running of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
This is a controversy over the ownership of a forty-acre tract of land in Nodaway county, Missouri. ■ ■
The petition states in substance that on the — -day of June, 1876, Thomas Byrn died intestate, leaving a large amount of real and personal property, and leaving as his only heirs and legal representatives his wid*119ow, Susanna, and bis children, the plaintiffs, as follows: Minerva Byrn, since intermarried with Joseph McKee; Fannie Byrn, since intermarried with J. T. Wells; Cornelia Byrn, since intermarried with Robert McKee, and Perry and Thomas Byrn. That after-wards, on the 14th day of…
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