Wirtz v. Gordon

This appeal is from a decree for the partition of 1878 acres of farm land located in Sunflower County and the recovery of the rental value thereof, and involves the question of whether a sale of the land under a deed of trust which was foreclosed in chancery and at which the appellant Arthur M. Wirtz became the purchaser should in effect be declared void and the claim of title asserted by such purchaser under the proceeding be cancelled as a cloud upon the title on the ground that the appellees, Ann F. Gordon and Edmond Gertrude Faison, who were then minors, were not legally served with…