Coulson v. Coulson
Decision Date | 10 February 1904 |
Citation | 79 S.W. 473,180 Mo. 709 |
Parties | COULSON et al. v. COULSON. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Adair County; N. M. Shelton, Judge.
Action by W. B. Coulson and another against Myrtle B. Coulson. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. Reversed.
Millan & Greenwood, for appellants. C. E. Murrell and Campbell & Ellison, for respondent.
This is a suit in equity to set aside a deed made by the plaintiffs' mother in her lifetime. The ground on which the validity of the deed is assailed is that it was not delivered. The ground on which equity jurisdiction is invoked is that the deed, being on record, clouds the title of the plaintiffs. The land covered by the deed is a farm of 100 acres in Macon county. It was the property of the plaintiffs' mother, who died intestate, leaving these two plaintiffs her only heirs. The deed is in the words following: It was duly acknowledged on May 1st, and recorded...
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