St. Louis v. Rutz
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Ejectment. The docket title to this case is Benyamvu Seeger cmd the Oity of St. Louis against Edward Rutz. The •death of Seeger was suggested by counsel on the 5th of January, 1891, and ■ thereupon, an order being entered that the case proceed in the name of the surviving plaintiff, the cause was on the same day submitted.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Ejectment. The docket title to this case is Benyamvu Seeger cmd the Oity of St. Louis against Edward Rutz. The •death of Seeger was suggested by counsel on the 5th of January, 1891, and ■ thereupon, an order being entered that the case proceed in the name of the surviving plaintiff, the cause was on the same day submitted. The case, as stated by the court, was as follows: This was an action of ejectment, commenced January 29, 1884, by Edward Rutz against Benjamin Seeger, in the Circuit Court of the county…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
The general question involved in the- case is, whether the land in disputéis a part of surveys 149 to. 156, inclusive, in the common fields of Prairie du Pont, with the accretion thereto, situate on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, in St. Clair County, Illinois, and is owned by the plaintiff, or whether it is owned by the surviving defendant, the city of St. Louis, as an accretion to, and part of, an island in that city, called “Arsenal Island” o/“ Quarantine Island,” on the western or Missouri side of the Mississippi River, which was originally an island more than á mile higher up…
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