Langlois v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court. I. The Sharadin deed was competent evidence, because, under the Spanish law, before introduction of the common law. a deed was not necessary to convey land. It could be legally conveyed by parol. (Mitchell vs. Tucker, 10 Mo., 260; Long vs. Stapp, 49 Mo., 506 ; Allen vs. Moss, 27 Mo., 354.) II.
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Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court. I. The Sharadin deed was competent evidence, because, under the Spanish law, before introduction of the common law. a deed was not necessary to convey land. It could be legally conveyed by parol. (Mitchell vs. Tucker, 10 Mo., 260; Long vs. Stapp, 49 Mo., 506 ; Allen vs. Moss, 27 Mo., 354.) II. The statute of limitations did not begin to run until February 1874, as the statute would not apply to the United States nor their grantees, until the delivery of the patent. (Gibson vs. Chouteau, 50 Mo., 86 ; Same case in 13 Wall., 92.) I. The case of Chouteau…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
The plaintiff, Langlois, brought suit in ejectment in Nov. 1872, to recover 640 acres of survey No. 2266, in T. 29 and 30, N. range 11 east. The alleged entry is alleged to have occurred in Sept. 1868. The answer is, first, a mere denial of the allegations of the petition, and, second, a plea of the statute of limitations both of ten and twenty years.
The case was heard by the court in 1874, and a verdict .and judgment for the defendant were rendered.
*458The bill of exceptions shows the following testimony on the trial: The plaintiff introduced a patent from the United States, on the 24th of…
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