Lewis v. Perry
Decision Date | 31 March 1899 |
Citation | 149 Mo. 257,50 S.W. 821 |
Parties | LEWIS v. PERRY et al. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from St. Louis circuit court.
Proceeding in partition by Turner T. Lewis against Richard E. Perry and others. From a decree determining the rights of the parties, George R. Taylor appeals. Affirmed.
Valle Reyburn, for appellant. John H. Overall, for respondents.
This is a proceeding in partition in which George R. Taylor, one of the defendants, appeals from the interlocutory decree of the circuit court determining the respective rights and interests of the parties in the premises and ordering a sale thereof. By the decree it was, in effect, determined that the appellant was entitled to an undivided one-fourth part of the land, and the other parties the other undivided three-fourths thereof, as tenants in common in fee simple, but that the improvements thereon belonged to the other parties, and appellant had no interest therein, and upon this basis partition was decreed; the court in the decree determining, further, the interests of the other parties to the action in the improvements, and ordering separate sales of the land and the improvements, and giving to the purchaser of the latter the right to remove the same within 60 days after the approval of the sale. The exclusion of appellant from a share in the improvements is the sole ground of his complaint, his contention being that he is entitled to a share in the improvements proportionate to his share in the land, and this presents the only question in the case.
The undisputed facts in the case are that George R. Taylor, Sr., died testate, seised of the premises. By virtue of the power conferred upon them by the will of said deceased, Albin Miller and John Maguire, his testamentary trustees, by a written instrument duly executed on the 21st day of July, 1881, leased the premises to the St. Louis Malleable Iron Company, upon the following terms and conditions: ...
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