Hill v. Kingsland
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Yalliant, Judge. (1) The dedication of . the twenty-five foot strip to the city vested the fee in the city of St. Louis to the use of the public. Belcher, etc., Co. v. Elevator Co., 82 Mo. 181. (2) On the vacation of the street by the ordinance offered in evidence the fee reverted to the person who owned the abutting property at the time of the dedication, and, in case of his decease, to his heirs.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Yalliant, Judge. (1) The dedication of . the twenty-five foot strip to the city vested the fee in the city of St. Louis to the use of the public. Belcher, etc., Co. v. Elevator Co., 82 Mo. 181. (2) On the vacation of the street by the ordinance offered in evidence the fee reverted to the person who owned the abutting property at the time of the dedication, and, in case of his decease, to his heirs. LacJdand v. Railroad, 31 Mo. 187; Angelí on Highways [3 Ed.], sec. 326. (3) The words describing the boundary of the property conveyed to…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
Ejectment for the possession of the following described tract or parcel of land, lying in the city of St. Louis and state of Missouri: Twenty-five feet of the south end of lot number 20 of George Townsend’s subdivision of West Cabanne place of city block 4539. Said lot having a length of one hundred (100) feet by a width of twenty-five (25) feet and being bounded on the north by property of defendant, south by Clemens place, east by lot nineteen (19) and west by lot twenty-one (21) of said block.
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