Youse v. Norcoms
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL FROM ST. LOUIS COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. STATEMENT OE THE CASE.. This was an action, of ejectment for a lot of ground in.the city of St. Louis, fronting on the river, brought in the common, pleas, on the day of August, 1848. A judgment was rendered for Norcum, plaintiff below:, in December- last, from which Youse took an appeah The recovery was for a lot of 18 feet inches in front, running back some 137 feet 11 inches.
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APPEAL FROM ST. LOUIS COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. STATEMENT OE THE CASE.. This was an action, of ejectment for a lot of ground in.the city of St. Louis, fronting on the river, brought in the common, pleas, on the day of August, 1848. A judgment was rendered for Norcum, plaintiff below:, in December- last, from which Youse took an appeah The recovery was for a lot of 18 feet inches in front, running back some 137 feet 11 inches. This lot was part of a square or block of ground lying between Cherry street on the north,, and Oak street on the south, Main street on the west, and Frontstreet on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Napton
delivered the opinion of the court..
For- the purposes of this case, it does not seem to be material to determine, whether the territorial legislature in 1816 succeeded in introdu*558cing-the common law, to the exclusion of the Spanish law or not. In the: case of Lindell vs. McNair, (4 Mo. Rep. 380) this court held, that a deed of' bargain and sale, executed in 1810 by a husband and wife, and' acknowledged according to the forms prescribed for such deeds, when, designed to convey the husband’s land and the wife’s dower, would' convey the wife’s land, although previous to the act of…
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