Childress v. Cutter
Supreme Court of Missouri
■Appealfrom, St. Louis Circuit Court. This was ejectment, in the St. Louis Circuit Court, brought by Cutter on the 1st of November, 1845, for a tract of one bj forty arpens of land in the Common Fields adjacent to St.. Louis, stating it to be the same tract formerly conceded tot Louis Lirette and by him sold to Jno. B. Yifvarenne, being; U. S- survey number 1479 in said Common Fields. Childress was the tenant of Bryan Mullanphy, of a lot of twenty-five by one hundred feet.
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■Appealfrom, St. Louis Circuit Court. This was ejectment, in the St. Louis Circuit Court, brought by Cutter on the 1st of November, 1845, for a tract of one bj forty arpens of land in the Common Fields adjacent to St.. Louis, stating it to be the same tract formerly conceded tot Louis Lirette and by him sold to Jno. B. Yifvarenne, being; U. S- survey number 1479 in said Common Fields. Childress was the tenant of Bryan Mullanphy, of a lot of twenty-five by one hundred feet. Mullanphy caused himself to be a co-defendant, and on the 10th of January, 1850, a verdict was rendered against the…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
1. It was maintained in argument by the appellants (defendants below,) that by the marriage contract between J. B. Vifvarenne and Genevieve Cardinal, she, the wife, took an interest of one half in the land in question, absolutely. By the Spanish law, which prevailed here at the time of this marriage, by mere operation of law, without any stipulation or agreement, a community or partnership was established between husband and wife of all their estate, both real and personal., At the dissolution of this partnership by death, after the payment of the debts incurred during its existence, the…
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