Cravens v. Jameson
Supreme Court of Missouri
appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. I. The court erred in admitting the record of the suit between John K. Cravens as plaintiff, and J. C. F. and Cornelia A. Maloney and Win. P. Allen as defendants in evidence, the appellants not being parties to that record, and because the same was otherwise incompetent as evidence.
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appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. I. The court erred in admitting the record of the suit between John K. Cravens as plaintiff, and J. C. F. and Cornelia A. Maloney and Win. P. Allen as defendants in evidence, the appellants not being parties to that record, and because the same was otherwise incompetent as evidence. (Fallon vs. Murray, 16 Mo., 168; Wise vs. Wimer, 23 Mo., 237; State vs. Phillips, 24 Mo., 483 ; State vs. Ross, 29 Mo., 39; Norcross vs. Hudson, 32 Mo., 227.) The only question in the case is as to the ruling of the court in admitting the record of the judgment and decree in the…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
This was a proceeding in the Circuit Court of Jackson County in 1872, to have a cloud removed from plaintiff’s title to a small tract of land in the vicinity of Kansas City, which was described in the petition. The plaintiff in his petition asserted a title to the land, though what that title was, and when and how acquired, he did not state.
*70The petition then stated, that on the 17th of December, 1867, the defendants filed for record, and had entered on the record a deed from one J. C. F. Maloney and Cornelia A. Maloney, his wife, acknowledged before one Baird, a notary public, and purporting…
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