Mason v. Woerner & Schleier
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. The act establishing the St. Louis Land Court did not take away the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas and Circuit Court, in cases affecting real estate, until the Land Court was organized by the election of judge and clerk.
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Error to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. The act establishing the St. Louis Land Court did not take away the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas and Circuit Court, in cases affecting real estate, until the Land Court was organized by the election of judge and clerk. If this is not the true construction of the act, then there was a period of about seven months when all remedy of any nature in regard to real estate in St. Louis county was abolished; the liens of judgments and mechanics’ liens were abolished, and the statute of limitations suspended during this period. The language of a…
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
The act establishing the St. Louis Land Court was approved February 23d, 1853. Its last clause declares “this act to take effect from its passage.” The first section is in these *568words : “A court o£ record to be called tbe St. Louis Land Court is hereby established within and for the county of St. Louis.” The second section gives to the court “ original and exclusive jurisdiction in all actions to be brought hereafter at law or equity,” in a great variety of cases stated in the section, comprehending all actions for the possession of land, and nearly all proceedings by which the title or…
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