Ranken v. Patton
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. The ease was tried at special term, before IIon. James J. Bindley, one of the judges. Appellants submit the following as the correct propositions of law applicable to this case, and the proof appearing in the record, together with some of the many decisions supporting the same: (A.) This deed cannot be permitted to stand in equity if it appear— a.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. The ease was tried at special term, before IIon. James J. Bindley, one of the judges. Appellants submit the following as the correct propositions of law applicable to this case, and the proof appearing in the record, together with some of the many decisions supporting the same: (A.) This deed cannot be permitted to stand in equity if it appear— a. That the beneficiaries thereunder had in fact occupied towards the donor a relation quasi parental or otherwise intimate or confidential, if by reason of such relation they had in fact acquired or might have…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, J.
This suit was instituted in 1870, at the October term of the circuit court of St. Louis. It was tried at the October term, 1873, before Judge Lindley, and the petition was dismissed, and a decree made to that effect. A motion for rehearing during that term was overruled at the June term, 1874. At the general term of said circuit court, held during the same month, this decree at the special term was affirmed and appeal taken by the plaintiffs. The object of the suit was to have a deed which had been executed by Sarah Patton on the 17th of January, 1866, set aside, and declared of no validity.…
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