Ragan v. McElroy
Decision Date | 10 June 1889 |
Citation | 11 S.W. 735,98 Mo. 349 |
Parties | Ragan et al., Appellants, v. McElroy et al |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. -- Hon. J. H. Slover, Judge.
Affirmed.
S. F Johnson and Chas. W. Clarke for appellants.
Objections having been made to the introduction of the deed of Ragan and wife, on the ground that the grantee named therein was neither a natural nor artificial personage known to the laws of the state of Missouri, it was the duty of the parties offering said deed to prove that the grantee therein had a legal existence. Hurt v. Salisbury, 55 Mo. 310; 2 Estey's Plead., pp. 922, 923; Flandreau v Downing, 23 Cal. 354; Corkhill v. Landers, 44 Barb. 218.
Daniel B. Holmes for respondents.
Appellants being in privity of blood with Jacob Ragan, deceased, cannot question the corporate existence of the Widows and Orphans' Home Society of Missouri. Broadwell v Merritt, 87 Mo. 95.
In this action in ejectment, the plaintiffs, who are the heirs-at-law of Jacob Ragan, deceased, seek to recover from the defendants the land conveyed by their ancestor to the Widows and Orphans' Home Society of Missouri, by the following deed, duly acknowledged and delivered, through which the defendants, by a regular chain of mesne conveyances, deraign title from the said Ragan:
Anna C. Ragan.
(Seal)"
The objection made on the trial to the admission of this deed in evidence was that it did not show, nor did it otherwise appear, that the grantee therein named was an existing corporation having capacity to take and hold the real estate herein conveyed. The objection was overruled, the deed...
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