76 Mo. 419 | Mo. | 1882
On the authority of Donovan v. Dunning, 69 Mo. 436, and other eases and authorities cited by plaintiffs, the petition is not obnoxious to the charge of multifariousness. Treating of such an objection to a bill, a writer of acknowledged authority states that the objection will not hold where the gravamen of fraud or wrong in the sales is the same and equally applies to all, notwithstanding that the defendants claim the land under distinct and separate sales of different parcels thereof to them separately. And the same distinguished jurist says : “The same principle has been supposed properly to justify the joining of several judgment creditors in one bill against their common debtor and his grantees, to remove impediments to their remedy created by the fraud of their debtor in conveying his property to several grantees, although they