Magwire v. Tyler
Supreme Court of the United States
' This case came up on writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri. If was commenced in the St. Louis Land Court, (equity side,) by petition and summons, agreeably to the code of Missouri. The plaintiff, John Magwire, claimed four arpents by four of land lying in the county of St. Louis, of which the defendants, Mary L. Tyler and others, were wrongfully in possession.
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' This case came up on writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri. If was commenced in the St. Louis Land Court, (equity side,) by petition and summons, agreeably to the code of Missouri. The plaintiff, John Magwire, claimed four arpents by four of land lying in the county of St. Louis, of which the defendants, Mary L. Tyler and others, were wrongfully in possession. The petition prayed a decree for title in them — for possession - -for an account of profits, and an injunction against waste. The defendants answered at lengthy denying the material facts set forth in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
In 1794, Joseph Brazeau had granted to him, by the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana, a tract Of land, four, arpents in front by twenty arpents deep, which extended in a N. N. west course, from the foot of the hill where stands the' Grange.de Terre, ascending to the vicinity of Stoiiy creek, bounded on one side by the bank of the Mississippi; on the opposite side by the public domain; and on the southern side thé tract was boúnded'by the concession to the'’free mulattress Esther, made in 1793. .
In 1798, Brazeau sold and conveyed to Labeaume part of his : concession. The deed includes…
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