Pool v. Brown
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Bollinger Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Fox, Judge. (1) There was a special law regulating the sale of swamp lands in Bollinger county at the time of the sale to Judson Gardner, and the sale, made as it was under the general'law, to said Gardner was invalid and void. Acts, 1856-7, p. 239 ; State ex rel. n. McDowal, 38 Mo. 529 ; Smith v. Ciarle, 54 Mo. 58; State ex rel. v. Wesleyan, 11 Mo.
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Appeal from Bollinger Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Fox, Judge. (1) There was a special law regulating the sale of swamp lands in Bollinger county at the time of the sale to Judson Gardner, and the sale, made as it was under the general'law, to said Gardner was invalid and void. Acts, 1856-7, p. 239 ; State ex rel. n. McDowal, 38 Mo. 529 ; Smith v. Ciarle, 54 Mo. 58; State ex rel. v. Wesleyan, 11 Mo. App. 373; Potter’s Dwarris on Stat., p. 154, note 4; City of St. Louis v. Alexander, 23 Mo. 483. (2) The deed from Bollinger county to Judson Gardner, dated May 24, 1871, was void and should have…
1Opinion of the CourtBbaoe, J.
— The plaintiff’s action is in ejectment for three detached tracts of land in sections 5, 8 and 17, in township 28, range 10, in Bollinger county. The *679case was tried before the court without a jury, verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which defendant appeals.
The lands in controversy are part of the swamp lands granted to the state of Missouri by an act of congress approved September 28, 1850. The plaintiff claims title through mesne conveyances under a deed from Bollinger county, dated May 23, 1871, and under a patent from the state of Missouri to said county, dated August 4, 1869,…
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