Public Schools v. Walker
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Missouri; the controversy being one of those, quite numerous in this court, growing out of the various acts of Congress intended to settle the land titles originating in the lands of Louisiana prior to its purchase by our government from France.
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Error to the Supreme Court of Missouri; the controversy being one of those, quite numerous in this court, growing out of the various acts of Congress intended to settle the land titles originating in the lands of Louisiana prior to its purchase by our government from France. The case was thus: The President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools brought suit, in the St. Louis Laud Court of Mis. souri, against Walker and another, to recover certain lands situate in the city of St. Louis. The title of the plaintiffs, who represented the common schools of St. Louis, rested on two acts of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justiee MILLER
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is not to be denied that if the lot in question was one of the class which, by the act of 1812, was reserved for the support of schools, that the title was vested in the State by the act of 1831, and by the State in the plaintiffs.
On the other hand, if the lot in question was not of the class reserved for support of schools by the act of 1812, then nothing in the act of 1831 has any effect upon it, and whoever may be the true owner, neither the State or school directors acquired any interest by the act of 1831.
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