Charleville v. Chouteau
Supreme Court of Missouri
'Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This was a petition in tbe nature of a bill in equity, filed against the heirs of Auguste Ohouteau, by Yictoire Charle-ville, claiming to be the daughter and sole surviving heir of Yictoire Richelet Yerdon. The children of Yictoire Charle-ville, claiming under her, were subsequently made parties plaintiff.
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'Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This was a petition in tbe nature of a bill in equity, filed against the heirs of Auguste Ohouteau, by Yictoire Charle-ville, claiming to be the daughter and sole surviving heir of Yictoire Richelet Yerdon. The children of Yictoire Charle-ville, claiming under her, were subsequently made parties plaintiff. The suit involved the title to one by forty -arpens of land, known as the Laroche arpent, embraced within a tract of eight by eighty arpens, known as the Ohouteau Mill tract, which was confirmed to Auguste Chouteau by the first board of commissioners in…
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
As the only evidence given in this case was given by the plaintiffs, and the court, on motion, decided that they had not made a case upon which they could recover, we are confined to the consideration of that case.
It sufficiently appears from the statements of the petition and the plaintiff’s evidence, that the land now in controversy was embraced in a larger tract claimed by Auguste Chouteau before the first board of commissioners, for his own benefit and as his own property, and that his claim was confirmed by the board on the 7th June, 1810, and that a patent-issued on that confirmation,…
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