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44 Mo. 382

Turner v. Field

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided August 15, 1869

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1869-08-15

<p>1. Seal, what sufficient.— Colored paper in the form of a seal, attached by mucilage to an instrument, is a sufficient sealing. (33 Mo. 35.)</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1872

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Relies on Pease v. Lawson

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Decided 1869-08-15

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Currier, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The plaintiff sues in ejectment. In proving up his title, he offered in evidence a power of attorney which concluded thus: “ In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal.” Opposite the signature, in the usual place of a seal, a small piece of colored pap^r in the form of a seal was attached, and made to adhere by the application and use of mucilage. This was the only sealing. The instrument was objected to and excluded as not being sealed.

¶3The propriety of the action of the court in excluding the power Of attorney is the only matter for consideration. The case is a *383substantial repetition of Pease v. Lawson, 33 Mo. 35; the only distinction between the two consisting in the fact that the paper seal was attached in the one case by the use of a wafex, and in the other by the use of mucilage. jThe subtle and ingenious argument by which this difference is sought to be magnified into impoi’tance is too finely drawn to be of practical utility. The case of Pease v. Lawson is decisive of this. Independently, however, of that adjudication, we should deem it quite safe to affirm the action of the Distx'ict Court in reversing the judgment of the Circuit Court and remanding the cause for trial, and that is the order of the court. The other judges concur.

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