Section 27 Description of Property

• Library: Real Estate Fundamentals 2011

The decree should fully describe the property with the description in the petition. Pioneer Cooperage Co. v. Dillard,59 S.W.2d 642, 644 (Mo. 1933); Clark v. Heckerman,142 S.W.2d 35, 37 (Mo. 1940). The judgment must have more than a fragmentary description of the real estate to convey title. Fuller v. Padley,628 S.W.2d 719, 722 (Mo. App. W.D. 1982). A judgment with an insufficient description of the property is not final and will not be reviewable on appeal. Creech v. Noyes, 78 S.W.3d 223 (Mo. App. E.D...