Chapman v. Dougherty
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Chariton Circuit Court. — IIon. Gr. D. Burgess, Judge. (1) In a suit in ejectment \>n petition and general denial, every deed in the chain of title not agreed to is a matter of controversy and litigation, and in this case plaintiffs’ title being claimed to be from defendant to-plaintiffs’ testator, Lucy A. Horsley, the only question in issue was whether the deed of Dougherty to Lucy A. Horsley was a valid contract of conveyance, and the evidence and instructions…
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Appeal from Chariton Circuit Court. — IIon. Gr. D. Burgess, Judge. (1) In a suit in ejectment \>n petition and general denial, every deed in the chain of title not agreed to is a matter of controversy and litigation, and in this case plaintiffs’ title being claimed to be from defendant to-plaintiffs’ testator, Lucy A. Horsley, the only question in issue was whether the deed of Dougherty to Lucy A. Horsley was a valid contract of conveyance, and the evidence and instructions in the case, on both sides, were alone directed to that point. (2) The statute prohibited defendant, Dougherty, from…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
This is an action in ejectment for the-undivided one-half of block forty-seven in the town of Keytesville, Chariton county ; a piece of ground clevised to Emma Chapman, wife of her co-plaintiff, by hermother, Lucy Anu Horsley, the grantee in a deed executed by Dougherty, the defendant. On the trial defendant admitted the existence of this deed, which was for the property in suit; that it was last in his possession, and was lost. Other testimony offered on behalf of plaintiffs showed a prima facie title in Mrs. Horsley to the premises in controversy. The controlling' question in this cause,…
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- Hughes v. IsraelSupreme Court of Missouri · 1881
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