Board of President of the St. Louis Public Schools v. Walker
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Land Court. This was an action brought by plaintiff against the defendants at the March term, 1864, in the St. Louis Land Court, to recover a tract of land containing about thirteen acres in the southern part of the city of St. Louis.
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Error to St. Louis Land Court. This was an action brought by plaintiff against the defendants at the March term, 1864, in the St. Louis Land Court, to recover a tract of land containing about thirteen acres in the southern part of the city of St. Louis. To establish its title, the plaintiff gave in evidence the act of incorporation of the town of St. Louis, dated November 9, 1809; a survey of the outboundary line of the town of St. Louis, commonly known as map X ; the act incorporating the plaintiff, and assignment and survey of the premises in controversy by the Surveyor-General to the…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, Judge
The case depends upon the question raised by the instruc*398tion which the court of its own motion gave for the defendants. That instruction declares, in effect, that an inchoate Spanish claim resting upon a concession and survey which had been duly presented for investigation by the Board of Commissioners under the acts of Congress of 1805 and 1807, and was reserved by the act of 1811 and subsequent acts, and was finally confirmed by the acts of Congress of the 4th of July, 1836, was a lot “rightfully claimed” by a private individual, and was excepted as such out of the reservation for schools…
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- Wilcox v. JacksonSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
- Peter v. BeverlySupreme Court of the United States · 1836
- Eberle v. Board of President of the St. Louis Public SchoolsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1848
- Kissell v. Board of President of the St. Louis Public SchoolsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1852
- Cabanné v. WalkerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1860
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