Bushong v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court. — Hon. Wm. T. Wood, Judge. The note from which this suit originated was for the sum of $1,250, payable to Cyrus Newkirk and signed in their individual capacities by the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sedalia, and by plaintiff, then pastor of the church.
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Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court. — Hon. Wm. T. Wood, Judge. The note from which this suit originated was for the sum of $1,250, payable to Cyrus Newkirk and signed in their individual capacities by the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sedalia, and by plaintiff, then pastor of the church. Afterwards Newkirk recovered judgment on the note against plaintiff, and sold land of the latter under execution thereon, and bought it in for a small sum at the execution sale. Subsequently, in July, 1877, plaintiff obtained a re-conveyance from Newkirk of the land on terms agreed on between…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
This was a proceeding in equity and irvrem. Its object was to subject certain church property of the Methodist Episcopal Church to the payment of a. sum of money which became due to the plaintiff, because of a loan made by him to the trustees of that church,, for which loan a note was executed by the trustees to' plaintiff for $1,250, and a like note to Newkirk, and the' board of trustees, also, ordered that a mortgage on the' church property be executed for the purpose of securing' these notes, but the mortgage was never made. The plaintiff’was successful in the trial court in subjecting the…
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