Drawyer v. King

This is a suit in two counts. The first is to determine title. In the second, plaintiff asks for partition. The trial court decreed the defendant King owned the whole title and plaintiff appealed.

Daisy Drawyer claimed that she and one Earl S. King purchased the property in question, Lots 8 and 9, block 22, Holland's Addition to Asbury, Jasper County, Missouri; that her name and King's name were inserted in the deed as grantees but that without her consent her name was stricken. She charged that this was done by Earl S. King or by someone for him after the deed was executed. Fonny King, the…