Gibson v. Chouteau

This controversy has undergone various mutations and migrations, through different forms and different forums, during the past sixteen years. In September, 1862, the plaintiff, Charles Gibson, commenced a suit in the St. Louis Land Court against the defendant Charles P. Chouteau, and others, to recover possession of a tract of sixty-four acres, which included the twenty-four acres of land sued for in the present proceeding. Gibson obtained judgment, from which Chouteau appealed to the Supreme Court. In 1866, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Land Court; but afterwards sustained…