Prairie Slouch Fishing & Hunting Club v. Kessler
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Lincoln Circuit Court. — Eon. James D. Barnett, Judge. ■ (1) Under the statute the plaintiff is empowered to acquire and hold such real estate and buildings only as may he necessary for assembly, library, laboratory and other rooms requisite for its purposes.
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Appeal from Lincoln Circuit Court. — Eon. James D. Barnett, Judge. ■ (1) Under the statute the plaintiff is empowered to acquire and hold such real estate and buildings only as may he necessary for assembly, library, laboratory and other rooms requisite for its purposes. Sec. 3443, R. S. 1909; Sec. 1405, R. S. 1899; Sec. 2833, R. S. 1889; Sec. 982, R. S. 1879. The enumeration of the hind and quantity of property which a corporation created under this statute may acquire, by all constructions of statutes, is an exclusion of the right to hold any other or for any other purpose. State ex rel. v.…
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, C.
In this suit plaintiff, proceeding on the theory of a constructive trust, seeks to have a court of equity declare a trust in favor of plaintiff with reference to approximately 426 acres of land situated in Lincoln county, Missouri, and hy its decree to divest the title thereto out of defendants (the holders of the legal title), and vest the same in the plaintiff corporation, upon plaintiff’s reimbursement to de--fendants of the amount paid by them for said land, and to compel defendants to account to plaintiff for the crops and rents received from said land.
The plaintiff is a…
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