Kissell v. Board of President and Directors of St. Louis Public Schools
Supreme Court of the United States
■ This case was brought up from the supreme court of Missouri by a writ of error issued under the 25th section of the judiciary act. ' It was an ejectment,-brought by the board of school commis-. tioners; to recover from Kissell. the following lot in St. Louis county, namely: Beginning on the west side of a street running .parallel with and next east of.
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■ This case was brought up from the supreme court of Missouri by a writ of error issued under the 25th section of the judiciary act. ' It was an ejectment,-brought by the board of school commis-. tioners; to recover from Kissell. the following lot in St. Louis county, namely: Beginning on the west side of a street running .parallel with and next east of. Carondelet Avenue, called Lawrence street or Short street, at' a point 120 feet south of the intersection of said street with -Wood streetthence westwardly in- a line parallel with Wood street 120 feet to an alley; thence southwardly along…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
In this case, the school commissioners were plaintiffs in their corporate capacity, and, in order to eject the defendant below, were bound to produce a legal title to the land claimed. Their title depends on three acts of congress, passed in 1812,1824, and 1831. The act of 1812 confirmed, to private owners at St. Louis and other villages in Missouri, town lots, out-lots, and common-field lots, in, adjoining, and belonging to the towns, and it .also confirmed to the towns their commons»
This aet made it the duty of the principal surveyor to survey, or cause to be surveyed and marked, (where the…
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