Walker v. Bacon
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. Plaintiffs by amended petition alleged in substance, that on the 1st-June, 1853, they were entitled to the possession of four hundred and eighty arpens, in Bonhomme township, St. Louis county, on the southern shore of the Missouri river, being the same conveyed by Alexander McOourtney and wife to John McCourtney, and recorded in Book E, page 35, of St. Louis county records; that on the 30th March, 1829, John McCourtney, being still the legal…
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Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. Plaintiffs by amended petition alleged in substance, that on the 1st-June, 1853, they were entitled to the possession of four hundred and eighty arpens, in Bonhomme township, St. Louis county, on the southern shore of the Missouri river, being the same conveyed by Alexander McOourtney and wife to John McCourtney, and recorded in Book E, page 35, of St. Louis county records; that on the 30th March, 1829, John McCourtney, being still the legal owner and entitled to the possession of said premises, conveyed, through the sheriff of St. Louis county, by sale,…
1Opinion of the CourtBates, Judge
John McCourtney, by deed dated January 1st, 1822, conveyed a tract of land in St. Louis county, Missouri, to his son Martin McCourtney, for the consideration of natural love and affection, and for the better maintenance, support, livelihood and preferment of Martin. This deed was recorded on the 24th day of April, 1822.
*154' Subsequently suit was brought against John McCourtney on the 22d day of December, 1822, and this tract of land, attached as the property of John McCourtney on the 23d day of January, 1823, sold on the 25th March, 1829, to Josiah Spalding, and sheriff’s deed to him executed on…
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