Campbell v. Laclede Gas Light Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from SI. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) The St. Louis copy of the patent of the United States was properly admitted in evidence. Geary v. Kansas City, 61 Mo. 378; ParJcinson v. Caplinger, 65 Mo. 290 ; Briggs v. Holmsirong, 72 Mo.. 337. (2) The ■certified copies of the record of the deeds from E. C. Payne and others to Thomas J. Payne, made in 1831, should have been excluded.
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Appeal from SI. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) The St. Louis copy of the patent of the United States was properly admitted in evidence. Geary v. Kansas City, 61 Mo. 378; ParJcinson v. Caplinger, 65 Mo. 290 ; Briggs v. Holmsirong, 72 Mo.. 337. (2) The ■certified copies of the record of the deeds from E. C. Payne and others to Thomas J. Payne, made in 1831, should have been excluded. They were void as to strangers, being mere nullities up to the time of the passage of the act of 1874. In 1846, before the act of 1847, or any subsequent acts were passed, the grantors in the deed to Payne conveyed to…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin, C.
On the 5th of January, 1877, the plaintiffs sued in ejectment to recover a tract of land in United States survey six hundred and seventy-one, situated in the city of St. Louis, immediately north of Mullanphy street, fronting about one hundred and thirty-seven feet on the Mississippi river, and running back from it with the same width to the depth of about two-'hundred feet. The petition is in the usual form. The Laclede Gas Light Company made separate answer denying specifically the allegations of the petition. The .city of St. Louis, in its answer, put in issue the allegations of…
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