Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Albert

This was a suit instituted in the Land Court of St. Louis county for the recovery of the possession of certain real estate claimed by the plaintiff under and by virtue of a deed of trust executed by one Lorenz Spiegel and the said Sophia, *182formerly wife of the said Lorenz, to secure the payment of certain notes executed by. him in favor of the plaintiff for borrowed money. It is admitted that the plaintiff is a foreign corporation, and that the transaction out of which the suit originated took place in this State through an agent of the said company. The real question is apparent from the…