72 Mo. 292 | Mo. | 1880
This is a proceeding instituted in the circuit court of Moniteau county against the defendants, W. E. Green, H. O. Hickcox and the Moniteau National Bank, to foreclose a deed of trust executed by defeudant Green to Hickcox, as trustee for plaintiff’s intestate, Robert Basnet, on certain lands therein described.
The petition, after alleging the death of Basnet and
It is insisted by defendant that the deed of trust, the foreclosure of which plaintiff seeks, is void, because the acknowledgment of the grantor was taken by Hickcox, the trustee named therein, and because the debt which it was given to secure is not described.
It is also insisted that plaintiff should be estopped from disputing the title acquired by defendant through its puri. estoppel. chase under the second deed of trust. Conceding for the purpose of this case, (without deciding whether or not the doctrine of estoppel can be invoked as against an administrator,) that it applies to administrators, we are of the opinion that no such case is made by the evidence as brings it within the operation of that principle. It appears from the evidence that, previous to the sale under the second deed of trust, the president of the bank expressed his opinion to the plaintiff that the deed of trust first executed by Creen to secure the Nance note was worthless and of no validity, that plaintiff said he had doubts as to the validity, but that he did not know how the courts would decide it, and also said that if Creen and Jones and their wives would agree that the amount of money in his hands as administrator, which would be due to the wives of said Creen and Jones, should be applied to the payment of the Nance note, the land mentioned in the deed of trust in that event would not be required. The evidence fails to show any promise or representation on the part of plaintiff that he would not enforce the deed of trust, or that he would abandon the lien, except upon the condition that the wives of Creen and Jones would consent