Lunsford v. La Motte Lead Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jlppeal from St. Francois Circuit Court. I. The two scrawls, following the names or signatures to the deed, were a sufficient sealing of the deed for all the parties or grantors. In the absence of explanatory evidence the law imputes or attributes one of the two seals to Radcliffe B. Lockwood, and the other to William A. Scott, and Amelia Scott, his wife.
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Jlppeal from St. Francois Circuit Court. I. The two scrawls, following the names or signatures to the deed, were a sufficient sealing of the deed for all the parties or grantors. In the absence of explanatory evidence the law imputes or attributes one of the two seals to Radcliffe B. Lockwood, and the other to William A. Scott, and Amelia Scott, his wife. (Tasker vs. Bartlett, 5 Cush., [Mass.] 359; Bowman vs. Robb, 6 Barr., 302; Bohannons vs. Lewis, 3 Monroe, [Ky.] 378 ; Towsend vs. Hubbard, 4 Hill, [N. Y.] 357; Ball vs. Dunsterville, 4 Term, 313; Mackay vs. Bloodgood, 9 Johns., 285; Perkins…
1Opinion of the CourtVories, Judge
This suit was brought in the Madison Circuit Court, and afterwards removed to the county of St. Francois, by change of venue. The action was in the nature of an action of trover and conversion.
The petition stated, that the defendant was a corporation organized under the laws of this State; that on or about the first day of June, 1870, defendant by its agents and servants unlawfully and willfully took, and carried away, one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of blue mineral or sulphuret of lead, the personal property of plaintiff, of the value of thirty dollars per thousand'pounds, and…
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