Reynolds v. Hempstead
Reynolds v. Hempstead
Opinion of the Court
“James G. Reynold, Plaintiff, against *
“Benjamin R. Hempstead and r Bettie D. Hempstead, Defendants. '
“Now comes plaintiff and moves the court for an order on Judson M. Randol, late sheriff of the county of Cape Girardeau, to pay to Robert L. Taylor the net proceeds in his hands belonging to Bettie D. Hempstead arising from the sale of her interest of the real estate sold at this term of this court by said late sheriff in the above styled cause and for reason states: That this;*649 plaintiff and defendant Bettie D. Hemp-
stead were tenants in common in the real estate sold herein, that plaintiff owned one undivided three fourths interest in said real estate, and defendant Bettie D. Hempstead, owned one undivided one fourth interest in said real estate. That said sale, plaintiff and defendants were the competitive bidders, and this plaintiff was the purchaser at the price and sum of three thousand and -dollars, which sum he paid to Judson M. Randol, late sheriff, who made said sale. That said sum was the full value of said property. That since said sale said plaintiff has learned that defendants, long before said partition proceedings, had executed to one Robert L. Taylor their note for three thousand dollars, and, to secure said note, executed to him a deed of trust on a large amount of real estate, among others the interest of said Betttie D. Hempstead in the real estate partitioned herein. That the real estate embraced in said deed of trust is of great value. That, although said deed of trust was duly recorded long before the partition proceedings herein, its existence was not known to this plaintiff, and said defendants being persons of supposed large means, this plaintiff never suspected that any part of their property was encumbered, nor did said Bettie D. Hempstead, nor her husband, Benjamin R. Hempstead, suggest or impart any information to him of the existence of said deed of trust, as his cotenant, said Bettie D. Hempstead, in law and good conscience was bound to do. That said Taylor is now threatening to sell the interest of said Bettie D. Hemp-stead in the real estate so partitioned, under his deed of trust, and unless the order herein prayed for is granted he would be compelled to pay again for the interest of his cotenant.”
On the hearing the judgment of partition and
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