Farrar v. Dean

RylaND, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

This is an action in the nature of a suit in ejectment brought by plaintiffs, as trustees for Martha J. Sweringen, to recover possession of a lot in the city of St. Louis. The lot was sold by the public administrator of St. Louis county as property belonging to the estate of Christopher P. Schewe, deceased, and the plaintiffs derive their title under the purchaser of the estate at the sale.

It seems from the record that the lot was deeded to Schewe by "Wm. Chambers, Wm. Christy and Thomas Wright, in 1817 ; that letters of administration were…