West v. Cochran
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Missouri. It was an action of ejectment, brought by West, a citizen of the State of Illinois, against Cochran, a citizen of Missouri, for all that tract or parcel of land situated in the city and county of St. Louis, in said district, and which tract or parcel of land is described as follows: Lot number one hundred and three, (103,) in block number three hundred and…
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Missouri. It was an action of ejectment, brought by West, a citizen of the State of Illinois, against Cochran, a citizen of Missouri, for all that tract or parcel of land situated in the city and county of St. Louis, in said district, and which tract or parcel of land is described as follows: Lot number one hundred and three, (103,) in block number three hundred and twenty-one, as the said lot is laid down and numbered on the map of the said city, and is bounded on the east by…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.-Justice CATRON
delivered the opinion of the court.
To understand the application of the instruction given to the jury which controlled the verdict in this case, a minute statement of the facts is necessary.
On the 1st June, 1794, Joseph Brazeau,. by petition, requested the Lt. Governor of Upper Louisiana to grant to him a tract of land near to the then village of St. Louis, “situated beyond the foot of the mound called the Grange de Terre, four arpens in width, which are to extend from the steep bank or beach of the Mississippi in the W.' {- S. W. by about twenty arpens in depth, that shall…
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