Strother v. Lucas
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri. The counsel for the plaintiff in error, exhibited the following statement of the case:— “This was an action of ejectment brought by Daniel F. Strother, of Kentucky, against Jno.
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IN error to the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri. The counsel for the plaintiff in error, exhibited the following statement of the case:— “This was an action of ejectment brought by Daniel F. Strother, of Kentucky, against Jno. B. C. Lucas, of Missouri) to recover a tract of land particularly described in the declaration, as follows: “Lying and being in the city and county of St. Louis, state of Missouri, containing two arpents in breadth, by forty in depth, or eighty superficial .arpents, French measure; one of which arpénts by. forty was granted to one Rene…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr; Justice Bald,WIN
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The’ plaintiff brought an ejectment in. the district court of Mis*428souri, to recover possession of two pieces or tracts Of laud, formerly common field lots adjacent to the village, and now part of .the city of St. Louis; g verdict and judgment was rendered' for the defendant, on' which the plaintiff brought his writ of error The whole merits of the case have been brodght before us, by the whole evidence given at -.the trial; and forty-three instructions asked, refused, or [given, spread out in the record; which present a case of great…
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