Inhabitants of Carondelet v. Dent
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action of ejectment, begun by the respondents in 1842, to recover lot number forty-one of the subdivisons of the commons of Carondelet, south of the River Des Peres.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action of ejectment, begun by the respondents in 1842, to recover lot number forty-one of the subdivisons of the commons of Carondelet, south of the River Des Peres. The title of the plaintiffs was as follows : On the 6th of December, 1796, John B. Gamache, on behalf of the inhabitants of the village of Carondelet, presented a petition to lieutenant governor Trudeau, asking an extension of their common fields for himself, so as to embrace a tract of land, bounded by that of Gabriel Constant and the Mississippi and the River Des Peres.…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
1. From the evidence in the record, the survey of Brown is out of the question. That survey, from the correspondence preserved, it appears, has been disapproved by the authorities of the general government. The facts upon which that act rests for its authority are not stated with sufficient fulness, in order to enable this court to determine whether it has any warrant in law. None of the regulations of the department, in relation to public surveys, are set forth, nor are the practices and usages of the government, in regard thereto, spread out. In a question of so much importance, it is…
2Cited by4 opinions
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- Ford v. DyerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1899
- Sigerson v. HornsbySupreme Court of Missouri · 1856
- Dent v. SigersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1860