Fordyce v. Rapp
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Dunklin Circuit Court. (1) By the sale under execution and the sheriff’s deed dated December 2, 1881, the title of Jacob R. Beckwith, Cora A. Hill, Q-eorge B. Clark, and the Little River Valley & Arkansas Railway Company, was cut off and passed to M. W. Lawson, and from him to Qeorge B. Clark by deed of February 11, 1882. (2) Upon the consolidation of the Little River Valley & Arkansas Railway Company with the Texas & St. Louis Railway Company in Missouri and…
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Appeal from Dunklin Circuit Court. (1) By the sale under execution and the sheriff’s deed dated December 2, 1881, the title of Jacob R. Beckwith, Cora A. Hill, Q-eorge B. Clark, and the Little River Valley & Arkansas Railway Company, was cut off and passed to M. W. Lawson, and from him to Qeorge B. Clark by deed of February 11, 1882. (2) Upon the consolidation of the Little River Valley & Arkansas Railway Company with the Texas & St. Louis Railway Company in Missouri and Arkansas it transferred to the latter all of its property. The subsequent sale under the execution in favor of Lawson…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
This is an action of ejectment by plaintiffs, as receivers of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway Company, for the possession of the following described tract of land lying in Dunklin county, to wit:
“A part of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section fifteen (15), in township number twenty-two (22) north, of range number ten (10) east, and by metes and bounds, as follows: Beginning at a point on Madison street, in the city of Malden, as the same appears upon the plat of said city, on file in the recorder’s office of Dunklin county, Missouri, on the west line of said…
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