Baumgartner v. Guessfeld
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. I. The infant defendants were not properly before the court; if so, all the proceedings against them are erroneous — Hendricks v. McLean, 35 Mo. 32. a. Sheriff’s return. There is no legal service upon the infant defendants.
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Error to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. I. The infant defendants were not properly before the court; if so, all the proceedings against them are erroneous — Hendricks v. McLean, 35 Mo. 32. a. Sheriff’s return. There is no legal service upon the infant defendants. They should have been personally served, as directed by the first or second clause of § 7 of Art. V. of the Practice Act, and not by leaving a copy at their usual place of abode with a white person of their family over the age of 15 years, as is pretended to have been done in this case. b. Sec. 8, Art. III. of Practice Act, p.…
1Opinion of the CourtLovelace, Judge
This is. an action in the nature of a bill in chancery to obtain a decree of title to one undivided half of certain lands described in the petition.
The petition states that Francis J. Baumgartner died seized and legally entitled to two certain pieces or parcels of land, situate in the county of St. Louis, and fully described in the petition,'and also described in the deeds by which the land was conveyed to Francis J. Baumgartner. Tire petition then goes on to state, that since the date of these deeds to Francis J. Baumgartner, valuable improvements have been made upon the land, consisting of…
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