Bradshaw v. Edelen
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — -Roto. Robert M. Foster, Judge. (1) The islands sued for existed prior to 1895, and in that year they were granted to St. Charles county for school purposes (sec. 8346, R. S. 1899), granting all islands belonging to the State then formed. They were surveyed, sold, patented and the patents recorded by said county, pursuant to secs. 8347, 8197 and 8198, Id., and sec. 8248, Id., makes them prima facie evidence of title.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — -Roto. Robert M. Foster, Judge. (1) The islands sued for existed prior to 1895, and in that year they were granted to St. Charles county for school purposes (sec. 8346, R. S. 1899), granting all islands belonging to the State then formed. They were surveyed, sold, patented and the patents recorded by said county, pursuant to secs. 8347, 8197 and 8198, Id., and sec. 8248, Id., makes them prima facie evidence of title. The deed of his co-patentees to plaintiff gave him such a prima facie title to the whole of them, and the evidence sustains that…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, P. J.
This is an action of ejectment, begun in the circuit court of St. Charles county, for the possession of two islands in the Missouri'river, in said county, one containing three hundred and twenty-*645two and ninety-hundredths acres, being part of sections five, eight and nine, of township forty-seven, range seven, east, designated on the plat of'the county surveyor of said county as “Nicholson’s Island East of Slough,” and the other island, containing one hundred and thirty-five acres, being part of sections five and six, same township and range, designated on said plat as “Nicholson’s Island West…
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- Minter v. CrommelinSupreme Court of the United States · 1856
- Carter v. HornbackSupreme Court of Missouri · 1897
- Widdicombe v. RosemillerU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri · 1902
- Long v. HigginbothamSupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- Cramer v. KellerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1889
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