Reaume v. Chambers
Supreme Court of Missouri
Writ of Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action in the nature o£ an action of ejectment, brought by Paul Reaume and others, to recover possession of one-fifteenth part of certain premises in the possession of defendants. The premises claimed are a portion of a lot of one by forty arpens,- situate in the St. Louis or Big Mound prairie, in the city of St. Louis, and confirmed by act of congress to the representatives of Francis Moreau.
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Writ of Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action in the nature o£ an action of ejectment, brought by Paul Reaume and others, to recover possession of one-fifteenth part of certain premises in the possession of defendants. The premises claimed are a portion of a lot of one by forty arpens,- situate in the St. Louis or Big Mound prairie, in the city of St. Louis, and confirmed by act of congress to the representatives of Francis Moreau. Both plaintiffs and defendants claim under representatives of the said Francis Moreau. The plaintiffs claim immediately and directly through their…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
1. Pierre Reaume marrying in 1815,.by the birth of issue during the same year became tenant by the curtesy initiate. '-The estate of tenancy by the curtesy must be regarded as co•eval in existence with the estate in dower. When the law broke idowm the community existing under the Spanish government *52and created dower for the wife, it at the same time recognized the existence of the tenancy by the curtesy for the husband. In the case of Riddick v. Walsh, (15 Mo. 519,) this court held that the territorial act of July 4, 1807, abolishéd the Spanish law of community and gave the wife dower in lieu…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Riddick v. WalshSupreme Court of Missouri · 1852
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