Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. City of St. Louis

— This is an action to restrain the city of St. Louis from removing, as an obstruction, without compensation, so much of a brick building on the south side of Market street, in said city, as projects beyond the' line of said street, of which, as at present located, the plaintiff and those under whom it claims, had been in the open, notorious, peaceable, continuous and adverse possession and occupancy, claiming title thereto for more than thirty years before this suit was commenced. The building was erected in 1840. The street was dedicated in 1846, and in improving it, the city conformed the…