Ryan v. Carter
Supreme Court of the United States
- Error to the. Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern'District;, of Missouri. ' This is an action of ejectment, brought Aug. ’27, 1873, for. part of a tract of land known as Survey 422, situate .in the county .of ‘ St... Louis, Mo.. The parties .claimed title under Auguste Dodier, and defendants relied also on the ¡-Statute of Limitations.
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- Error to the. Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern'District;, of Missouri. ' This is an action of ejectment, brought Aug. ’27, 1873, for. part of a tract of land known as Survey 422, situate .in the county .of ‘ St... Louis, Mo.. The parties .claimed title under Auguste Dodier, and defendants relied also on the ¡-Statute of Limitations. On the 13th of October, 1800, Dodier asked of the then Spanish Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Louisiana a Concession of five hundred arpens of-land;, and, on the 14th of that month, the Lieutenant-Governor ordered that he .should be put in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
The defendants, and those under whom they claim, have been in continuous and adverse possession of the land in controversy, claiming title to it for more than thirty-five years. The justice of the case, growing out of such length of possession, is manifestly with the court below; and we think the law of it is equally so.
The property in suit is part of a tract of land known as Survey 422, in the county of St. Louis. The court below, by stipulation, tried the case, and made a special finding of facts, on which it based its conclusion of law, that the plaintiffs could not recover. It is objected…
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