Dobyns v. Rice
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Johnson. Circuit Court, Hon. Noah M. Givan, Judge. Statement of case by the court. This is a bill in equity asking for a personal judgment against defendant Meredith Rice for the unpaid balance of the purchase money for a certain tract of land, and for the enforcement of a vendor’s lien for the amount, so found, against the said land.
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Appeal from Johnson. Circuit Court, Hon. Noah M. Givan, Judge. Statement of case by the court. This is a bill in equity asking for a personal judgment against defendant Meredith Rice for the unpaid balance of the purchase money for a certain tract of land, and for the enforcement of a vendor’s lien for the amount, so found, against the said land. The facts in this case will fully appear from the following decree, rendered by the trial court herein: “ Now, again comes the parties hereto, and this cause having been submitted to che court for trial and final hearing, and the court having heard…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The facts, found by the trial court, in the above decree, are proved by the evidence contained in the record. The direct evidence is not as full and complete as it might be, but the facts and circumstances in. proof, in connection with the direct evidence, sustain the court below in its finding of facts. And after a careful examination of all the evidence in this case, we have no-sort of doubt as to the correctness of the court’s finding. In the further discussion of the case we shall treat the facts found in the decree as the facts of this case.
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