City of Hannibal v. Heirs & Adm'r of Draper
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Pike Circuit Court. This was an action of ejectment commenced in 1851, in Marion Circuit Court, to recover lots three and four in block twenty-six of the town of Hannibal, as originally laid out by Stephen Glascock. A trial was had in the Circuit Court, which resulted in the non-suit of the plaintiff under the ruling of the court. The case was brought into this court and the judgment reversed.
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Error to Pike Circuit Court. This was an action of ejectment commenced in 1851, in Marion Circuit Court, to recover lots three and four in block twenty-six of the town of Hannibal, as originally laid out by Stephen Glascock. A trial was had in the Circuit Court, which resulted in the non-suit of the plaintiff under the ruling of the court. The case was brought into this court and the judgment reversed. (15 Mo. 634.) On the second trial, the plaintiff as evidence of title, introduced Glascock’s plat of the town of Hannibal, filed in the recorder’s office April 17,1836. The lots in question are…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, Judge
It was decided when this case was here before (City of *336Hannibal v. Draper, 15 Mo. 634) that the town plat, acknowledged and filed or deposited with the recorder of the county of Marion, was effectual under the statute concerning plats of towns and villages (act of 20th February, 1835, R. C. 1835, p. 599) to convey in fee simple all the title of Stephen Glascock in and to the lots in question to the county of Marion, in hand, for the use of the inhabitants of the town of Hannibal as church ground, and that the act of incorporation of the City of Hannibal (act of February 21, 1845) vested all…
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