McLeod v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Chariton Circuit Court. — Hon. Gt. D. Burgess, Judge. (1) The undisputed evidence shows that the plaintiff was the absolute owner and the holder of the notes sued on, and that no other person had any interest whatever in and to the same. (2) Defendant cannot hold the lands and refuse to pay the purchase money.
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Error to Chariton Circuit Court. — Hon. Gt. D. Burgess, Judge. (1) The undisputed evidence shows that the plaintiff was the absolute owner and the holder of the notes sued on, and that no other person had any interest whatever in and to the same. (2) Defendant cannot hold the lands and refuse to pay the purchase money. Crumb v. Wright, 97 Mo. 14; Smith v. Busby, 15 Mo. 388; Bigelow on Estoppel [3 Ed.] 429. (3) Where there is no fraud alleged the purchaser of land with covenants for title who is in undisturbed possession will not be relieved from the payment of purchase money on the mere…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, P. J.
Wm. O. McLeod and Benjamin H. Shipp, by a conveyance made to them, having become the joint and equal owners of a certain tract of land in 1881, sold the same in May, 1883, to James A. Snyder, the defendant, for the sum of $5,000, and contracted to make him a good title, he to pay $500 cash which he did, executed his four several promissory notes to McLeod and Shipp jointly, payable December I, 1883, for $500, and the other notes for $1,333.33 each, payable respectively December 1,1884, December 1, 1885, and December'1, 1886. McLeod and Shipp made Snyder a title bond to, and he afterwards was…
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