Speed v. St. Louis M. B. T. R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This is an action of ejectment, instituted hy the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error to recover possession of a lot or parcel of ground in block 422 in the city of St. Louis, Mo., popularly known as the lot of ground on which was situated McDowell’s Medical College. Isaac Drake McDowell is the common source of title.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This is an action of ejectment, instituted hy the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error to recover possession of a lot or parcel of ground in block 422 in the city of St. Louis, Mo., popularly known as the lot of ground on which was situated McDowell’s Medical College. Isaac Drake McDowell is the common source of title. It appears from the hill of exceptions that in 1843 Dr. Joseph N. McDowell made a contract of purchase for this property with the then owner, Thomas IT. Smith. It would seem…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, District Judge
Plaintiff's counsel have displayed marked research into the nice distinctions respecting the creation of qualified estates, and rest the ease largely upon the rigidity of some technical rales of construction touching such deeds to real property. We will not undertake to review all the authorities cited, as the discussion would be more academic than useful. There is in the interpretation and construction of written instruments no more marked tendency of the judicial mind than to get at directly wha,t was the real thought and purpose of the maker of the instrument. When the language and terms…
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