Glasgow v. Lindell's Heirs
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. I. It has long been settled that the act of Congress of March 6, 1820, and the ordinance of July 19,1820, operated as a direct grant by Congress to the State, and vested in the State a complete title to section sixteen, for township schools, as soon as surveyed, unless the title had previously passed out of the United States.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. I. It has long been settled that the act of Congress of March 6, 1820, and the ordinance of July 19,1820, operated as a direct grant by Congress to the State, and vested in the State a complete title to section sixteen, for township schools, as soon as surveyed, unless the title had previously passed out of the United States. (Payne et al. v. St. Louis-County, 8 Mo. 476; Kennett v. Cole County, 13 Mo. 139 ; State v. Dent, 18 Mo. 313 ; State v. Ham, 19 Mo. 592.) n. The validity of the act of the Legislature of March 3, 1851, was somewhat questioned in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, Judge
This was ejectment, commenced in September, 1853, in the St. Louis Land Court by plaintiffs, as commissioners appointed by *66the County Court of St. Louis county, against Peter Lindell in bis lifetime, -who died, and tbe suit was revived against the defendants as his heirs. It is for part of the sixteenth section of township 45 of range 7 east of the fifth principal meridian.
The defendants, by their answer, denied the plaintiffs’ right to bring the suit; admitted possession of so much of the premises as lay south of a line running easterly and westerly, and parallel with the south line of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Page v. ScheibelSupreme Court of Missouri · 1847
- Guitard v. StoddardSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- Glasgow v. HortizSupreme Court of the United States · 1862
- Milburn v. HardySupreme Court of Missouri · 1859
- Vasquez v. EwingSupreme Court of Missouri · 1868
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- O'Bryan v. City of OwensboroCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1902
- Cummings v. PowellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1888
- State ex rel. Folk v. SpencerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1901
- Farrar v. HeinrichSupreme Court of Missouri · 1885
- Glasgow v. BakerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1880
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