Abernathy v. Dennis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Bollinger Circuit Court. Wayne county could take and hold the fee to the land, and her rights would he in the nature of other private rights.
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Appeal from, Bollinger Circuit Court. Wayne county could take and hold the fee to the land, and her rights would he in the nature of other private rights. (Touchard v. Touchard, 5 Cal. 806; Rev. Stat. 1846, p. 289, ch. 38, § 1; R. C. 1855, p. 502, ch. 43, § 1; Barton County v. Walser, 47 Mo. 189.) And after the statute of February 28, 1855, all efforts by the State to divest Wayne county of title thereto, not accompanied with compensation, would be of no effect upon constitutional grounds. The statute of limitation began to run against the respondent from the date of his entry or purchase…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, Judge
This was ejectment for land in Bollinger county, commenced in January, 1870. It was swamp land originally situated in Wayne county, but attached to or included in Bollinger county by the act of the general assembly creating that county, approved the first day of March, 1851.
The plaintiff claimed the land by virtue of a purchase from Bollinger county, consummated by a patent executed by the governor of this State in 1869, conveying the land in dispute to the plaintiff. The defendant claims the land by an attempted entry of the same in Wayne county, and a deed therefor from the county, but both…
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