Armstrong v. City of St. Louis

The plaintiff sued.the defendant, city of St. Louis, in ejectment, for two parcels of'land lying in said 'city, laying his damages at $15,000 and stating the monthly rents and profits to be $83.93.

*310The answer was a denial, and a plea of the statute of limitations, and also, as a defense, -that plaintiff had dedicated the premises to the city, to be used as a street, and that the city had proceeded, after said dedication, to improve said parcels of land to be used as a street, and that, for ten years next before the commencement of this suit, said premises had, with plaintiff’s consent, been…