Stark v. Kirkley
Decision Date | 03 March 1908 |
Citation | 108 S.W. 625,129 Mo. App. 353 |
Parties | STARK et al. v. KIRKLEY et al. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Butler County; Jesse Sheppard, Judge.
Action by C. M. Stark and others against Alfred Kirkley, John Mangold, and Thomas Osborn. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants Mangold and Osborn appeal. Affirmed.
In 1893 and 1894 Alfred Kirkley was the owner of the following described real estate, situated in Butler county, Mo.: The S. E. ¼ of the S. W. ¼ of section 5, township 23, range 5 E. On June 30, 1893, plaintiff and Kirkley entered into the following contract:
This instrument was duly acknowledged by Kirkley on the day of its date, and was filed and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of Butler county on July 12, 1893. On August 6, 1894, plaintiffs and Kirkley entered into a like contract whereby Kirkley agreed to pay plaintiffs $162 for 556 fruit trees, said $162 to be "due and payable as follows, all deferred payments and interest hereinafter particularly specified to date from the 1st day of December, 1894; one-tenth in one (1) year, one-tenth in two (2) years, one-tenth in three (3) years, one-tenth in four (4) years, one-tenth in five (5) years, one-tenth in six (6) years, one-tenth in seven (7) years, one-tenth in eight (8) years, one-tenth in nine (9) years, one-tenth in ten (10) years, with interest at the rate of six (6) per cent. per annum, and if interest be not paid annually the same is to become as principal and bear the same rate of interest." This contract charged a lien on the land as did the one of June 30, 1893, and was also duly acknowledged by Kirkley on the day of its execution, and was filed for record and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of Butler county on August 14, 1894. The fruit trees called for by both contracts were delivered by plaintiffs to Kirkley, and were by the latter set out on the land described. On December 23, 1896, Kirkley and wife executed and acknowledged a deed of trust to Samuel W. Foster, trustee, on the aforesaid land to secure the payment of a promissory note for $125, of even date with the deed of trust, signed by Kirkley and wife and payable to John Mangold 12 months after date. This deed of trust was duly recorded. On October 26, 1899, Foster, as trustee, sold the land under the deed of trust to John Mangold, and executed and acknowledged...
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