Stoddard v. Chambers
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up; by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Missouri. It was an ejectment brought by the-plaintiffs in error (who were also plaintiffs in the court below) against the defendant..
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This case came up; by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Missouri. It was an ejectment brought by the-plaintiffs in error (who were also plaintiffs in the court below) against the defendant.. The title of the plaintiffs was derived .through -their ancestor, Amos Stoddard, from an old Spanish concession, granted in .1800; and that of the defendant, to forty-seven acres and twenty-one hundredths of an acre, from what is called a-NeW Madrid patent, issued to one Peltier under the act. of Congress passed orii the 17th February, 1815, ch. 198. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
' This case is from the Circuit Court of Missouri, and was .brought here by a writ of error.
The plaintiffs brought an action of ejectment for 350 arpens of land, situated' near St- Louis. • Their -title was founded on' a concession by Delassus, lieutenant-governor, to Mordecai Bell, the 29th of January, 1800. Bell-conveyed the same to James Mackay, the 29th of May, 1804, and on the 26th- September, 1805, he conveyed to Amos Stoddard; A plat and certificate of the survey- were certified and recorded by Antoine Soulard, as surveyor-general, the 29th of January, 1806.
The above papers were…
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