MacKay v. Dillon
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, by a writ of error, issued under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act. The suit was originally brought in the Circuit Court (State court), for the county of St. Louis, but the venue changed to the county of St. Charles.
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This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, by a writ of error, issued under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act. The suit was originally brought in the Circuit Court (State court), for the county of St. Louis, but the venue changed to the county of St. Charles. It was an ejectment, brought by the heirs of Mackay against Dillon, to recover a tract or parcel of land in the county of St. . Louis, containing two hundred arpents or more, bounded on the north by land formerly belonging to Auguste Chouteau, called the Mill tract; on the south by'land formerly…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
The record before us is brought here by a writ of error to the Supreme Court of .Missouri, under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act. ■ The action was an ejectment for land, to which each party claimed title by virtue of an act of Congress confirming interfering Spanish claims.
The evidence on part of the plaintiffs having been introduced in the State court cf original jurisdiction, the defendant offered to read copies of certain documents and depositions taken in 1806 and 1825, certified by the United States recorder of land titles in the State of Missouri, as truly copied from the…
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