Adams v. Gossom
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Francois Circuit Court. — Hon. Charles A. Killian, Judge. (1) Although the deed named John B. Adams as the grantee, when this property was purchased in 1864 from Joseph Stay, yet the absolute equitable title vested at once in James F. Adams, plaintiffs’ husband and father, because he was the man who bought the property. He bought it with his own money and his brother had nothing to do with the affair.
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Appeal from St. Francois Circuit Court. — Hon. Charles A. Killian, Judge. (1) Although the deed named John B. Adams as the grantee, when this property was purchased in 1864 from Joseph Stay, yet the absolute equitable title vested at once in James F. Adams, plaintiffs’ husband and father, because he was the man who bought the property. He bought it with his own money and his brother had nothing to do with the affair. Bank v. Fife, 95 Mo. 128; Richardson v. Champion, 143 Mo. 543; Bispham’s Principles of Equity (5 Ed.), p. 133, sec. 79. (2) Regardless of what was the nature of the interest as…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, P. J.
>James F. Adams died in 1878 leaving a widow, Genevieve (intermarried with Lester), and three children, Mary (intermarried with Swain), Rosalind and Olinda. These children and their mother, on August 31, 1905, sued Gossom, his wife and the Doe Run Lead Company to quiet title under section 650’, Revised Statutes 1899, in the St. Francois Circuit Court, claiming to own the real estate described in their petition situate in St. Francois county, Missouri, viz., the north half of the southwest quarter and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 13, township 38, range 5. There was…
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