258 Mo. 405 | Mo. | 1914
On April 1, 1908, Mary McMurray was the owner and in possession of the west thirty-six and
Helen Y. Elbert recovered judgments against Mary MbMurray before a justice of the peace of Jackson county and filed transcripts thereof in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Jackson county on the following dates and for the following amounts:
' Judgment for $300 dated Oct. 23, 1908, filed Oct. 28, 1908.
Judgment for $300 dated Oct. 23, 1908, filed Oct. 28, 1908.
Judgment for $300 dated Jan. 16,1909, filed April 23, 1910.
'Judgment for $300 dated Peh. 23, 1909, filed April 23, 1910.
Judgment for $300' dated Dec. 16, 1909, filed April 23, 1910.
The liens of those judgments have been duly revived and kept alive.
On October 28, 1908, Mary McMurray executed to Nathan Younger a general warranty deed for the property, which was filed on that day, and Younger executed to James E. Lyons a general warranty deed for the property dated November 301, 1908, and filed for record March 3, 1909: Those two last-mentioned deeds were fraudulent as to the creditors of Mrs. McMurray and were so adjudged hy the trial court.
On October 3, 1910, the above-named deed of trust was foreclosed hy sale and Ed H. Batson became the purchaser and received the trustee’s deed for a recited consideration of $4040. That deed was filed for record October 5, 1910, and on the same day Batson executed a deed of trust to Walter W. Calvin, trustee, to secure a loan of $5200 made by Beulah L. Ketchum. On May 13, 1911, Batson executed to R. T. Herrick, trustee, a
On September 23, 1911, Mary McMurray was duly adjudged by the probate court to be of unsound mind and incapable of managing her estate, and Sam B. Strother was duly appointed and qualified' as her guardian. lie commenced this suit as such guardian September 26, 1911, and on March 8, 1912, resigned as such guardian, and IT. D. Kissenger was duly appointed and qualified in his place.
On December 18, 1911, the deed of trust for $5200 dated October 5, 1910, was foreclosed and Claude T. Goble became the purchaser as trustee for Beulah L. Ketchum for the consideration of $6228, and received the trustee’s deed for the land.
All the above-mentioned deeds were promptly and duly recorded. The third amended petition, filed October 4, 1912, makes all parties connected with the above-mentioned deeds and judgments, and also Katie McMurray, plaintiff’s daughter, defendants herein. It alleges that Mary McMurray was insane during all the time in which said instruments were made, and that those instruments were made under a conspiracy between all the defendants except Helen V. Elbert to cheat plaintiff out of her property; and that said instruments were without any consideration, and that defendants then and there knew that plaintiff was of unsound mind.
The petition charges that defendant Katie McMurray had received the rents from the corner building on the property since October 28,1908, and refused to account therefor. The property is alleged to be worth $15,000. It contains an offer to do equity and to place all parties in statu quo, and asks that all the above-mentioned conveyances be cancelled.
The answer and cross-petition of Helen Y. Elbert alleges the existence of her judgments as above set out and the filing of the transcripts as stated, and then alleges that the conveyances above set out were made with the intention on the part of all the parties thereto to hinder and delay the creditors of Mrs. McMurray, and that said Batson purchased the land at the first foreclosure sale for Mary McMurray and held the title thereunder for Mrs. McMurray. Then follows a prayer that her judgments be declared first liens on the property and that all said conveyances be adjudged void. There was no answer by Beulah L. Ketchum to this cross-petition, but the cause was tried as though there were a denial of its allegations.
On May 7, 1912, James R. Page was appointed receiver to take charge of the property, and he duly qualified as such.
On October 4, 1912, after trial, the court entered its decree in which it found that Mary McMurray was of sound mind at the time of the execution of the deed of trust of April 1, 1908, and at the time of its foreclosure, and also at the times of the execution of the two deeds of trust by Batson. It also found that Batson purchased at the first foreclosure and held the title for Mrs. McMurray, and that the two deeds of trust executed by Batson were executed at Mrs. McMurray’s request and for full value which was received by her.
The decree found that the amount furnished by; Beulah L. Ketchum in making the loan of $5200, and
“It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that said Mary McMurray be and she is hereby granted a period of five months, from and after this date, in which to redeem such property from such liens,- during which period of time, H. D. Kissenger, the guardian of the person and estate of said Mary McMurray, a person of unsound mind, may sell such real estate, and apply the proceeds of such sale first in satisfaction of such lien in favor of said Beulah L. Ketchum, next -in satisfaction of such lien in favor of the said Helen V. Elbert and the residue shall be retained by the said H. D. Kissenger, as the guardian of said Mary McMurray, provided that no such sale shall be made except by approval of this court and no such sale shall be made for an amount less than the amount necessary to satisfy in full the lien herein given to said Beulah L. Ketchum.
“It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court, that said H. D. Kissenger, be and he is hereby appointed special commissioner, and is hereby authorized and directed to sell such property, at public sale, after due notice as required by law, after such period of five months, from this date, if such prop*415 •erty shall not have been previously sold or redeemed, to the highest bidder for cash, but the said H. D. Kissenger shall, in such event-, be required to execute a good and sufficient bond, in the sum of $10,000, conditioned as required by law, to be approved by this court, and to distribute the proceeds thereof as hereinbefore directed.”
On October 30, 1912, on application of the receiver, he was by order of the court empowered to borrow money to pay taxes on the property.
On October 31, 1912, Mary McMurray and Helen Y. Elbert filed their motion to discharge the receiver. On November 6, that motion was overruled; and thereupon Mrs. McMurray and Helen Y. Elbert were each allowed an appeal herein. No bill of exceptions was ever filed. After the appéal, the plaintiff died, and the cause has been revived in the name of Albert E. Martin, her administrator with the will annexed, and he has entered his appearance herein.
Beulah L. Ketchum’s claim is against the property and not personally against Mrs. McMurray. Batson borrowed the money and gave his notes therefor secured by deeds of trust on the land. Ketchum could not get relief in the probate court, and even if she could, she shall not be driven that long route to get what is due her in this proceeding.
Y. Appellants allege error by the trial court in refusing to discharge the receiver and in appointing a special commissioner to make sale of the property. As the motions and evidence upon which the trial court acted are not before us, we will not proceed blindly to correct alleged! errors concerning which we know nothing.
The decree of the circuit court is affirmed.
The foregoing opinion of Roy, C., is adopted as the opinion of the court.