ETHRIDGE v. TIERONE BANK

No. SC 87734.

226 S.W.3d 127 (2007)

Mary ETHRIDGE, Respondent, v. TIERONE BANK, f/k/a First Federal Lincoln Bank, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

June 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J.E. Edwards, Brett D. Anders, Christian J. Kelly, Kansas City, James R. Fossard, Springfield, for Appellant.

Kerry D. Douglas, Bolivar, for Respondent.


MICHAEL A. WOLFF, Chief Justice.

Introduction

When David Ethridge refinanced the home that he and his wife, Mary, held as tenants by the entirety, the lender prepared loan documents that slighted the wife. As the wife later said, her husband was "head of the household." That legally quaint assumption appears embodied in the lender-drafted refinancing papers that list David Ethridge, a married man, as the sole owner and the sole borrower. The law, as set...

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