Bell v. Dawson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an ejectment, commenced in the St. Louis Land Court, July 1,1854, and, taken by change of venue to the Circuit Court in 1856, and tried at the September term, 1859. The land claimed was a tract of one by forty arpens, in the St. Louis Grand Prairie common fields, and alleged to be the southern arpent of the one and one-half arpens confirmed to Philibert Gagnon by the act of Congress of April 29,1816, and surveyed as United States…
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an ejectment, commenced in the St. Louis Land Court, July 1,1854, and, taken by change of venue to the Circuit Court in 1856, and tried at the September term, 1859. The land claimed was a tract of one by forty arpens, in the St. Louis Grand Prairie common fields, and alleged to be the southern arpent of the one and one-half arpens confirmed to Philibert Gagnon by the act of Congress of April 29,1816, and surveyed as United States survey No. 1591. To prove their title, the plaintiffs presented— 1. The report of Recorder Bates, confirming to…
1Opinion of the CourtBates, Judge
This is an action of ejectment. The plaintiffs claim under a deed made on the 6th day of March, 1775, from Philibert Gagnon to John B. Ortez, for a piece of land described as “ A lot of one arpent in front by forty arpens in depth, situated in the Grand Prairie bounded on one side by Mr. Laclede, and on the other side by the said vendor, such as it now exists, which the said Ortez says he knows and is satisfied therewith.”
It was shown that, at the time this deed was made, Gagnon’s land in the Grand Prairie, was a tract of three arpens in front by forty ai’pens in depth, and that it was…
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