Evans v. Greene
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action in the nature of ejectment, brought in December, 1849, by Augustus H. Evans against Isaac T. Greene, to recover a lot of ground on Main street, in the northern part of the city of St. Louis.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action in the nature of ejectment, brought in December, 1849, by Augustus H. Evans against Isaac T. Greene, to recover a lot of ground on Main street, in the northern part of the city of St. Louis. Elizabeth Ashley, under whom the defendant was a tenant, was made a co-defendant in May, 1850. At the October term, 1853, when the cause was called for trial, the intermarriage of Elizabeth Ashley with John J. Crittenden was suggested. The trial proceeded without Crittenden being made a party, and the jury returned the following verdict: “…
1Opinion of the CourtLeonard, Judge
The principal question in the cause relates to the proper location of a piece of land of twelve and one-sixth arpens, now within the city of St. Louis, under Price’s deed to O’Hara, of the 16th of March, 1820, designated on diagram No. 1, by the lines at — ts—si—la, and hereafter referred to as the O’Hara tract. This land was part of a larger tract of 30 93-100 ar-pens, originally sold by Chouteau on the 3d of August, 1808, to Meriwether Lewis, designated on the map as ai — ih—hf—fa, and hereafter referred to as the Lewis tract, and which, after Lewis’ death, was acquired by Price, on the…
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