Cutter v. Waddingham
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action of ejectment commenced in the St. Louis Circuit Court on the 8th day of August, 1846,.by Cutter, the respondent, to recover of Waddingham, appellant, who was tenant under the heirs of John Mullanphy, deceased, a tract of land described in the declaration as follows : “ The following described lot or parcel of ground, situated at a place called thei Prairie, near St. Louis, or Prairie La Grange de Terre, in said county,…
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Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action of ejectment commenced in the St. Louis Circuit Court on the 8th day of August, 1846,.by Cutter, the respondent, to recover of Waddingham, appellant, who was tenant under the heirs of John Mullanphy, deceased, a tract of land described in the declaration as follows : “ The following described lot or parcel of ground, situated at a place called thei Prairie, near St. Louis, or Prairie La Grange de Terre, in said county, being a lot of one arpent, French measure, in width, by forty arpens, like measure, in length, and the same tract in…
1Opinion of the CourtLeonard, Judge
'This is a suit to recover possession of a forty arpent lot of ground, now in the city of St. Louis, originally granted to Lirette in 1769, and sold by him in 1774 to JohnB. Yifvarenne. The title of both parties is derived from Yifvarenne. The plaintiff’s claim from the last surviving child, Louis Yifvarenne, by conveyances from the descendants of his two surviving paternal aunts, his next of kin of the blood of bis father; and the defendants derive their title from three half-brothers of Louis Yifvarenne, children of the mother, by Jacques Marechal, her second husband, insisting that the…
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