Tayon v. Hardman

This is a suit in the nature of an action of ejectment. There was a trial by a jury and the court gave the following instructions in behalf of the plaintiff : “1. If the lot described in the plaintiffs’ petition was one of a series of lots lying adjacent to each other in the same general range in the Grand Prairie of St. Louis, and in the vicinity of the village or town of St. *540Louis, and said lots -were occupied and cultivated by tbe inhabitants of said village in a common field prior to the 20th December, 1803, then said lot is a common field lot within the meaning of the act of June 13th,…