Lessieur v. Price
Supreme Court of the United States
" This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri by a writ of error, issued under the 25th section of the Judiciary- Act. It was an ejectment brought-by the plaintiffs in error, in the Circuit Court of Cole County, (State Court of Missouri,) to recover lot No. 455, as known and described upon the plat of the city of Jefferson, lying and being at a corner formed by the intersection of Washington and High Streets.
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" This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri by a writ of error, issued under the 25th section of the Judiciary- Act. It was an ejectment brought-by the plaintiffs in error, in the Circuit Court of Cole County, (State Court of Missouri,) to recover lot No. 455, as known and described upon the plat of the city of Jefferson, lying and being at a corner formed by the intersection of Washington and High Streets. Both parties claimed to derive title from the United States. Th.e cause was submitted to the Circuit Court of Cole County, asá jury, and the judgment being…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
The first consideration arising in this case involves a matter of practice. The suit was brought in a State Circuit Court of Missouri, and tried by the court without the intervention of a jury; when the judge ruled questions of law propounded to him unfavorable to the plaintiffs, and gave judgment for the defendant, to reverse which, a writ of error was prosecuted, and the cause removed to the Supreme Court of that State. On a rehearing there, only two of the judges were competent to preside ; they disagreed in opinion, and a judgment of affirmance was entered because of that division. And…
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