Landes v. Brant
Supreme Court of the United States
In error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri. Isaac Landes, a citizen of Kentucky, brought an action of ejectment in the court below, at the' October term of 1845, against Joshua -B. Brant, a citizen of Missouri, to recover a lot of ground in the. city of St. Louis. Plea, general issue. At the trial of the cause, the plaintiff, gave in evidence the following patent: — Patent to Glamorgan.
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In error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri. Isaac Landes, a citizen of Kentucky, brought an action of ejectment in the court below, at the' October term of 1845, against Joshua -B. Brant, a citizen of Missouri, to recover a lot of ground in the. city of St. Louis. Plea, general issue. At the trial of the cause, the plaintiff, gave in evidence the following patent: — Patent to Glamorgan. “ The United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: . “Know ye, that there has been deposited in the General Land Office a certificate…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
The first title paper offered in evidence by the plaintiff was a patent from the United-States to Jacques Clamorgan, dated June 18,1845, which purports to grant “to said Clamorgan (under Gabriel Dodier), and to his heirs,” the land in dispute.
The patent is founded on a certificate made by the first board of commissioners established at St. Louis, which declares, that Clamorgan, cláiming under Dodier, original claimant, was entitled to a patent under the provisons of the second section of the act of Congress of 3d March, 1807; and it was ordered that the same should be surveyed conformably to…
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