Fleming v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pemiscot Circuit Court. — Hon. Sterling H. McCarty, Judge. (1) Tbe court erred in excluding tbe testimony offered by tbe defendant, (a) One of tbe defendants in the tax judgment deed under whom the defendant claims was Eugene Cropper, mortgagee. In plaintiff’s deed he assumed this mortgage. The defendant offered this mortgage to show the proper parties defendant were made defendants in the' tax suit, Mellravy and Eugene Cropper, mortgagee.
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Appeal from Pemiscot Circuit Court. — Hon. Sterling H. McCarty, Judge. (1) Tbe court erred in excluding tbe testimony offered by tbe defendant, (a) One of tbe defendants in the tax judgment deed under whom the defendant claims was Eugene Cropper, mortgagee. In plaintiff’s deed he assumed this mortgage. The defendant offered this mortgage to show the proper parties defendant were made defendants in the' tax suit, Mellravy and Eugene Cropper, mortgagee. The court sustained the objection, (b) The court sustained the objection on this line of testimony t-o-wit: That the land was of little value,…
1Opinion of the CourtBond, C. J.
I. Plaintiff sues to quiet the title to a certain eighty acres of unimproved timber land in Pemiscot County, Missouri, alleging that defendant claims some right, title, estate or interest adverse to him.
The answer, was a general denial, coupled with an allegation of title in defendant, and a plea of abandonment, estoppel and laches on the part of plaintiff..
Plaintiff’s claim of title dates from a patent to the State of Missouri, under an act of Congress, approved September 28, 1850, followed by a conveyance to Pemi-*576scot County by the State of Missouri. The next link is a patent from Pemiscot…
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