Mills v. Stoddard
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri. It was an ejectment brought in the Circuit Court by the defendants in error, as heirs of Amos Stoddard, to recover 350 arpens of land, which is thus described in the declaration : — “ Being the same tract originally granted by the Spanish government, in the province of Upper Louisiana, to Mordecai Bell, by concession bearing date 29th January, 1800, and being…
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri. It was an ejectment brought in the Circuit Court by the defendants in error, as heirs of Amos Stoddard, to recover 350 arpens of land, which is thus described in the declaration : — “ Being the same tract originally granted by the Spanish government, in the province of Upper Louisiana, to Mordecai Bell, by concession bearing date 29th January, 1800, and being the same tract located and surveyed by the proper officer on or about the first day of January, 1806, and which…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
' The plaintiffs brought an action of ejectment in the Circuit Court, to recover three hundred and fifty arpens of land in the neighbourhood of St. Louis, which they claim under a concession made, by the Spanish government, in 1800, to Mordecai Bell. Bell conveyed his right to James Macxay on the 20th of May, 1804, and on the 20th of September, 1805, Mackay conveyed the same to Amos Stoddard, the ancestor of the plaintiffs. A plat and certificate of the survey Were certified and recorded by Antoine Soulard, as Surveyor-General, the 20th of January, 1806.
On the 29th of June, 1808, the above…
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