Reed v. Conway
Supreme Court of Missouri
■Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action on the case, commenced in 1846, by Warren Reed against Frederick R. Conway, then surveyor gene - ral of Illinois and Missouri. The declaration contained four counts.
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■Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action on the case, commenced in 1846, by Warren Reed against Frederick R. Conway, then surveyor gene - ral of Illinois and Missouri. The declaration contained four counts. The first count averred that, on the tenth day of May, 1845, Silas Reed, then surveyor general of Illinois and Missouri, entered into certain articles of agreement, under seal, with the plaintiff, by which it was witnessed and agreed that the plaintiff would, under his own personal and immediate superintendence, and not by sub-contract, execute certain surveying in the…
1Opinion of the CourtRyland, Judge
Erom the great number of the questions and the points made in this case, were the court to express its views on each one, would require it to extend the opinion to very great length. I do not think it necessary to notice many of the points made, as there are some plain and general propositions, well settled, which must govern and determine this casé.
It will be seen from the facts set forth in the statement of the case, that this was a suit brought by a deputy surveyor against the surveyor general of the United States for Illinois *34and Missouri, charging bina with wrongfully and maliciously…
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