McDown v. Wilson

STONE, Judge.

In this suit in equity, defendants appeal from a money judgment for $12,750 entered in favor of plaintiffs. The litigation was spawned in the home of Mrs. S_, a notary public (hereinafter referred to as the notary) in Cabool, Missouri, who undertook to “write up” the papers reflecting the terms of agreement between plaintiffs and defendants for the sale of plaintiffs’ farm for $33,250 and the sale of their cattle and “machinery” for $12,750.

Plaintiffs John W. McDown and Bea V. McDown, residents of the State of Oklahoma, owned an undivided one-half interest in a 500-acre farm in…