Lockridge v. Mace
Decision Date | 14 March 1892 |
Citation | 109 Mo. 162,18 S.W. 1145 |
Parties | LOCKRIDGE v. MACE. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from circuit court, Jackson county; JOHN W. HENRY, Judge.
Action by Charles R. Lockridge against William L. Mace to enforce a vendor's lien. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Affirmed.
Boggess & Moore, for appellant. Ess & Block, for respondent.
This litigation, begun in June, 1889, grows out of a contract in writing entered into between the plaintiff and defendant, whereby the former agreed to convey to the latter a certain undivided one-half of real estate which he claimed under the third clause of the will of his father, Thomas J. Lockridge, who, as the owner of the land, executed the will in 1867, and died in 1868. Said clause is the following: The fifth cause in the will gave the wife a life-estate in the same land. Plaintiff tendered a deed for the land, but the defendant refused to accept the same, on the ground that plaintiff only had a life-estate in the land. The plaintiff sought by this proceeding to enforce his vendor's lien. The cause was heard and determined on the facts already stated, as well as on the following additional agreed facts. ...
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