Grant v. Moon
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Greene Circuit Court. — Hon. James T. Neville, Judge. (1) In order that the title to the middle of the highway shall pass and become vested in the grantee when it is abandoned, the highway, road, or whatever it may be, eo nomine, must be used as a monument.
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Appeal from Greene Circuit Court. — Hon. James T. Neville, Judge. (1) In order that the title to the middle of the highway shall pass and become vested in the grantee when it is abandoned, the highway, road, or whatever it may be, eo nomine, must be used as a monument. "Where the grantee takes by metes and bounds he takes only what is covered thereby, and, even though the description of his land may run to highway or along the highway, he is entitled only up to it as above stated; The highway itself must especially be named as the monument or terminus of one or all of his lines, and be called…
1Opinion of the Court
Brace, P. J. —
This is an action in ejectment for a •small parcel of land in the city of Springfield, contained within the following metes and bounds: • “Beginning at a point eleven rods and nine links south of a point twenty-eight feet southwest of the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section 23, township 29, range 22, thence south forty-one and one half degrees west to a point on a straight line running due north and ■south one hundred and sixty feet west of said beginning point; thence south forty-one feet; thence north forty-one and one half degrees east to a point due south of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Snoddy v. BolenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1894
- Gear v. BarnumSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1870
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- Cooper v. Massachusetts Bonding & InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1944
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