Gibson v. Chouteau
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. The chain o£ title was as follows : 1. Confirmations to James Y.-O’Carroll for 1,000 arpents, 13th March, 1806; reduced on 14th December, 1810, to 350 arpents, and extended by Recorder of land titles to 640 acres in 1815, and finally confirmed on the 29th April, 1816, to James Y. O’Carroll and his legal representatives. 2. Deed, acknowledged and recorded, from James Y. O’Carroll to George Ruddell, of 1805, for confirmation, and for all the…
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Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. The chain o£ title was as follows : 1. Confirmations to James Y.-O’Carroll for 1,000 arpents, 13th March, 1806; reduced on 14th December, 1810, to 350 arpents, and extended by Recorder of land titles to 640 acres in 1815, and finally confirmed on the 29th April, 1816, to James Y. O’Carroll and his legal representatives. 2. Deed, acknowledged and recorded, from James Y. O’Carroll to George Ruddell, of 1805, for confirmation, and for all the land. 3. Geo. Ruddell to Jas. Tanner and And. P. Gillespie, Mar. 7,1866, for 550 arpents in Little Prairie township, New…
1Opinion
Brief of
B. A. Hill,
on Rehearing.
I. The statute of limitations began to run from the day the survey of the New Madrid location was returned to the Recorder of land titles, and the patent certificate was issued August 16,1841.
*575(a) The patent certificate in this case has the same effect as the patent certificate issued under a confirmation by the old Board under the acts of 1805 and 1807; the same identical form is adopted, that “ the party is entitled to a patent for the tract of land therein designated.” The list of patent certificates shows this date, and an extract from that list ap. pears in…
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