White v. Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Stoddard Circuit Court.— Eon. ,7. L. Fort, Judge. (1) The tax collector in instituting suits, for the enforcement of the lien for delinquent taxes, in the absence of notice to the contrary, may look to and rely upon the record of deeds to see who the owner of the property is, and the purchaser under the judgment in such suits will be protected in his purchase against the holder of an unrecorded deed.
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Appeal from Stoddard Circuit Court.— Eon. ,7. L. Fort, Judge. (1) The tax collector in instituting suits, for the enforcement of the lien for delinquent taxes, in the absence of notice to the contrary, may look to and rely upon the record of deeds to see who the owner of the property is, and the purchaser under the judgment in such suits will be protected in his purchase against the holder of an unrecorded deed. Vanee v. Corrigan, 78 Mo. 97; Hunt v. Sack, 79 Mo. 663; Payne v. Lott, 90 Mo. 680; Evans v. Robertson, 92 Mo. 200; Allen v. Ray, 96 Mo. 546; Nolan v. Taylor, 131 Mo. 227; Weir v.…
1Opinion of the CourtFeeeiss, J.
Suit to quiet title. Williams Burns, the common source of title, on November 19, 1869, deeded the property in controversy to Oliver Hazard Perry Williams, giving the initials only of his first names, so that in the body of the deed the granting clause was to O. H. P. Williams. This deed was written upon a Pennsylvania form, the grantors living in Pittsburg, and upon this form, in the lower left-hand corner, opposite the certificate of the notary, is a blank which was filled in and signed by the grantor, Burns, reciting that he had received from the grantee, O. H. P. Williams, the…
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