Harrell v. Surface, 37858.
| Decision Date | 16 April 1942 |
| Docket Number | No. 37858.,37858. |
| Citation | 160 S.W.2d 756 |
| Parties | BLANCHE HARRELL, Appellant, v. WALTER J. SURFACE, HAZEL R. SURFACE, RUSSELL DESCHAMP, MAYME DESCHAMP, HIMMEL-BERGER-HARRISON LUMBER COMPANY, HENRY BURLOCK, and BERT WALKER. |
| Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court. — Hon. James C. McDowell, Judge.
TRANSFERRED TO ST. LOUIS COURT OF APPEALS.
Merrill Spitler, R.F. Baynes and Harry Bock for appellant.
Robert A. Dempster and Bailey & Bailey for respondents.
This is an action to foreclose a deed of trust given by defendants, Walter J. and Hazel R. Surface, on 80 acres of land in Stoddard County. The venue was changed to Cape Girardeau County. The trial court found that the lien of the deed of trust had been extinguished by subsequent tax sales, dismissed the petition and plaintiff appealed.
Defendant, Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company, held a deed of trust on the land antedating the Surface deed of trust, but that deed of trust was paid off, and the lumber company filed a disclaimer. Defendants, Burlock and Walker, were tenants on the land, and did not answer. Neither did the Surfaces answer. Defendants, Deschamps, husband and wife, answered separately; denied that plaintiff had any right to foreclose, and claimed to own the land free from any claimed lien of the deed of trust.
In chronological order, the facts are as follows: September 17, 1924, plaintiff and John F. Lilly sold the land to defendant, Walter J. Surface, and on same date Surface and wife executed deed of trust on the land to secure a note for $1814.00, due in 10 years, and given as a part of the purchase price of the land. Shortly thereafter, and prior to any tax sale of the land, plaintiff and Lilly endorsed the $1814.00 note and delivered it to Dr. T.P. Fristoe, as collateral, to secure an obligation owed him by plaintiff, but plaintiff obtained the note from Dr. Fristoe before this cause was filed. November 4, 1935, the Little River Drainage District brought suit for delinquent taxes against the land for the years 1930-1934, but neither plaintiff nor Dr. Fristoe was made parties. The drainage tax suit went to judgment and the land was sold under the judgment on December 8, 1936, to the Cornucopia Farms, Inc. November 3, 1937, the land was sold (third sale) under the Jones-Munger law for delinquent state and county taxes, to Harry and Emma Woodruff, and a certificate of purchase was issued to them. January 10, 1938, Cornucopia Farms, Inc., who purchased at the drainage tax sale, conveyed the land to M.G. Gresham, and, on the same day, Gresham conveyed to defendants, Russell and Mayme Deschamp. June 2, 1938, the Woodruffs, who purchased at the sale for state and county taxes, assigned their certificate of purchase to defendant, Russell Deschamp. November 24, 1939, two years after the issue...
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