Richardson v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from Howard Circuit Court. In support of the decree of the circuit court, the counsel for the ap-pellees will insist upon the following : POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. 1. The defendants, and their ancestors, had the legal title twenty, and the posession thirty years, and they will not be disturbed by this court, unless the complainants establish a clear equity in themselves, to be clothed with the legal title. Bird, et al. vs. Ward & Cravens, 1 Mo.
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APPEAL from Howard Circuit Court. In support of the decree of the circuit court, the counsel for the ap-pellees will insist upon the following : POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. 1. The defendants, and their ancestors, had the legal title twenty, and the posession thirty years, and they will not be disturbed by this court, unless the complainants establish a clear equity in themselves, to be clothed with the legal title. Bird, et al. vs. Ward & Cravens, 1 Mo. R. 281, new publication. 2. Richardson, the ancestor, had a vendible interest in the land in 1815, under the pre-emption law of 1814, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, J.
This was a bill in chancery, brought by Christopher Richardson and James Barton, (by his next friend,) heirs at law of James Richardson, deceased, to compel the conveyance of a legal title to a quarter section of land from the heirs of Nicholas S. Burckheartt, deceased.
*802The bill alleges that James Richardson, the ancestor, cultivated the land in controversy in 1811 and 1812, and that the pre-emption right, under the act of congress of April 12th, 1814, was granted to the legal representatives of said Richardson, who were both infants, and one of them a married woman; that the purchase money…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McFadin v. RippeySupreme Court of Missouri · 1844
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