Jones v. Peterson

— This is a suit in equity, originating in the Circuit Court of Dunklin County, whereby plaintiff seeks to rescind an alleged contract entered into between himself and defendant guardian and curator, and to set aside and cancel a guardian’s deed from the latter to the former, conveying the undivided two-fifths interest of his wards in eighty acres of real estate in said county, which was executed and delivered in pursuance of the aforesaid contract. Upon a trial in the Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas, to which the cause was awarded on change of venue, a decree in favor of plaintiff was…