Strother v. Christy

Tompkins, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.*

This is an action of ejectment brought by Strother, to obtain the possession of land in the vicinity of St. Louis, from Christy. On the trial of the cause, the plaintiff offered in evidence, a copy of a confirmation of a tract of land, four hy twenty ar-pents, lying in form of a right angled parallelogram, within which was contained the land for which the action was brought 5 this being a certified copy of the confirmation, was admitted by the Court to be read; but in the confirmation of which a copy was read, a reference was made to book C,…