Crispen v. Hannavan
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Ray Court of Common Pleas. Plaintiff, among other matters, offered in evidence a certified transcript of the papers, proceedings, orders and decrees of the case wherein Godfrey and Fish were plaintiffs, and the unknown heirs and devisees of Henry Clay, deceased, were defendants, brought to supply by decree a deed from Henry Clay to Richard Findell for the land in controversy, with other lands, dated October-14, 1839. See further the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from Ray Court of Common Pleas. Plaintiff, among other matters, offered in evidence a certified transcript of the papers, proceedings, orders and decrees of the case wherein Godfrey and Fish were plaintiffs, and the unknown heirs and devisees of Henry Clay, deceased, were defendants, brought to supply by decree a deed from Henry Clay to Richard Findell for the land in controversy, with other lands, dated October-14, 1839. See further the opinion of the court. The deed from Young to Morrison, of April 20, 1819, was clearly not admissible as an ancient deed, for the reason that plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
This was an action of ejectment to recover certain military lands lying in Carroll county. The two deeds offered in evidence by the plaintiff and received by the court were, I think, improperly admitted. One of the deeds was acknowledged before a notary public of the District of Columbia, and the other before an officer of like character in the State of Kentucky. The statute provides that every instrument of writing executed out of this State and within the United States, which conveys or affects military bounty lands in this State, and which is acknowledged or proved according to the laws…
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