Milburn v. Hardy
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to.St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action of ejectment brought by William Mil-burn and others, as commissioners appointed by the St. Louis county court under authority of an act of the general assembly of March 8, 1851, to recover possession of part of fractional section sixteen, in St. Louis township.
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Error to.St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action of ejectment brought by William Mil-burn and others, as commissioners appointed by the St. Louis county court under authority of an act of the general assembly of March 8, 1851, to recover possession of part of fractional section sixteen, in St. Louis township. At the trial, the plaintiffs adduced the following evidences of title: 1. An act of Congress of March 6, 1820, entitled “An act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on a…
1Opinion of the Court
Napton, Judge,
delivered tlie opinion of the court.
One of the questions presented by this record is, whether the act of 13th June, 1812, confirmed any lot outside of the outboundary directed by that act to be run by the surveyor general; and upon this question it is deemed unnecessary to add any thing to what has already been said in the cases involving this point. (Milburn v. Hortiz, 23 Mo. 536 ; Tayon v. Hardeman, 23 Mo. 539 ; Schultz v. Lindell, 24 Mo. 567.)
The only question discussed in this case was the admissibility of the proceedings before the recorder of land titles (Hunt) under the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Gurno v. JanisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1840
- Soulard v. AllenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1853
- Schultz v. LindellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1857
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