Glasgow v. Baker
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. This was an action of ejectment. Plaintiffs sued on behalf of the public schools, claiming the land in dispute as part of school section 16, township 47 north, range 7 east, of the 5th principal meridian, under the act of Congress of March 6th, 1820, admitting the State into the Union.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. This was an action of ejectment. Plaintiffs sued on behalf of the public schools, claiming the land in dispute as part of school section 16, township 47 north, range 7 east, of the 5th principal meridian, under the act of Congress of March 6th, 1820, admitting the State into the Union. The land was admitted to lie within the limits of said section, but defendants claimed it by virtue of a title older than that under which the claim was made for the schools, viz : as part of certain common field lots the title to which was confirmed by the act of June…
1Opinion of the Court
Napton J.
This is the same case before this court in 1872, Glasgow v. Lindell’s heirs, 50 Mo. 60. The suit was commenced in 1853, and resulted in May 1870, in a verdict and judgment for plaintiffs in the Circuit Court for 35.076 acres, but this judgment was reversed by the general term of said court, and this reversal was sustained by this court; but the case was remanded to the special term for further proceedings. The appeal now is from the result •of this new trial.
The evidence for the plaintiff on the second trial was precisely the same as that on the first trial, which is stated in detail…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Glasgow v. Lindell's HeirsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1872
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