Glasgow v. Baker
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Adams, J. The common fields were a connected and continuous' series of lots, en masse, surrounded by a common fence.— Page v. Scheibel, 11 Mo. 187; Glasgow v. Hortez, 1 Black, 595. If the whole of the township was granted or disposed of by said act of congress, tbe plaintiff can not recover in this action. —Glasgow v.Hortez, 1 Black, 595 ; 2 How. 345, 375 ; Glasgow v. Lindell’s Heirs, 50 Mo. 70, 81; Glasgow v* LindelVs Heirs, 72 Mo.…
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Adams, J. The common fields were a connected and continuous' series of lots, en masse, surrounded by a common fence.— Page v. Scheibel, 11 Mo. 187; Glasgow v. Hortez, 1 Black, 595. If the whole of the township was granted or disposed of by said act of congress, tbe plaintiff can not recover in this action. —Glasgow v.Hortez, 1 Black, 595 ; 2 How. 345, 375 ; Glasgow v. Lindell’s Heirs, 50 Mo. 70, 81; Glasgow v* LindelVs Heirs, 72 Mo. 443. All of this township was granted and disposed of on the 13th of June, 1812, by the first and second sections of said…
1Dissent
Dissenting opinion by
Thompson, J.
I can not agree to the opinion of the court in this case, for the reasons stated in my opinion in Cummings v. Jamison (No. 2095). My understanding of the decisions of the *211supreme court, in the two former appeals of this case (50 Mo. 60; 72 Mo. 441), as applied to the facts then and now in evidence is that the Grand Prairie common fields of St. Louis was one field, under one enclosure, though owned and cultivated in severalty by various persons; that the effect of the act of 1812, was to recognize and confirm the title of these various occupiers and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Glasgow v. Lindell's HeirsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1872
- Glasgow v. BakerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1880