Alexander v. Haffner

This case comes to the writer for opinion on reassignment. It is a statutory action at law to ascertain, determine and quiet title to “Lots 20 and 21 of block 3 of the subdivision of the Robert Walsh estate in block 3679 of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, fronting fifty feet on the south line of Garfield Avenue by a depth southwardly of one hundred and thiry-two feet to an alley.” Emma Benson (formerly Emma Smith) is the agreed common source of title. On the 18th day of June, 1920, Mrs. Benson, then a widow, signed and acknowledged a warranty deed in due form, purporting to convey the said…