Hall v. Hobart
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Action at law by Corinna E. Hobart against P. M. Hall and the City of Minneapolis. Judgment (174 Fed. 433) for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Action at law by Corinna E. Hobart against P. M. Hall and the City of Minneapolis. Judgment (174 Fed. 433) for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. This was an action of ejectment, instituted by the defendant in error, Corinna L. Hobart, to recover possession of a lot of ground fronting on the Mississippi river, commonly known as “Boom Landing,” and the accretions and rights appertaining thereto, including part of an island which arose from the bed of the river opposite to it, known as “Hall’s Island.” Her…
1Opinion of the Court
' ADAMS, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This being an action of ejectment, plaintiff must recover, if at all, on the strength of her own title, and not on the weakness of the defendants’. She is conceded to have been the owner in fee simple of a lot of ground fronting on the east bank of the Mississippi river, which was originally acquired by patent from the United States, and was therein described as bounded on the southwest by the Mississippi river. While the object of this suit is to recover possession of the lot, with its accretions generally speaking, the chief…
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