Pindell v. Mullikin
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for tile district of Missouri. This was a bill in equity brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district Missouri, by Richard Pindell, of Kentucky, against Napoleon B. Mullikin, Jerome B. Mullikin, Charles B. Wiggins, and Virginia, his wife, John R. Shepley, William H. McPherson, P. Dexter Tiffany, Samuel Willi, James Clements, jr., and David H. Armstrong, citizens of the. State of Missouri.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for tile district of Missouri. This was a bill in equity brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district Missouri, by Richard Pindell, of Kentucky, against Napoleon B. Mullikin, Jerome B. Mullikin, Charles B. Wiggins, and Virginia, his wife, John R. Shepley, William H. McPherson, P. Dexter Tiffany, Samuel Willi, James Clements, jr., and David H. Armstrong, citizens of the. State of Missouri. The complainant prayed to have decreed to him fifty arpents of land in the neighborhood of St. Louis, and deduced his title from John…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
Pindell filed his bill against the respondents and others, to have decreed to him, as assignee of John R. Sloan, fifty acres of land adjoining the city of St. Louis. The respondents rely on the act of limitations as- a defence, (among others,) alleging that they have been in adverse possession of the land for which they are sued for more than twenty years before the suit was brought.'
John R. Sloan became of age in 1834; the bill so alleges. The land was confirmed to the father of the respondents, under whom they claim as heirs, by the act of Congress of July 4th, 1836, and the bill was filed…
2Cited by2 opinions
- Samuel H. Cottrell & Son v. Smokeless Fuel Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1906
- Gray v. JonesU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri · 1882