Cutter v. Waddingham
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. The legal title under which plaintiffs claimed was the act of Congress of April 29, 1816, confirming the claims recommended by Becorder Bates.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. The legal title under which plaintiffs claimed was the act of Congress of April 29, 1816, confirming the claims recommended by Becorder Bates. The report of the recorder upon this claim was as follows : Province Land Book, No. 2, p. 29, contained the survey by Duralde, Surveyor General of Upper Louisiana, made between the year 1770 and 1772, and called for a lot of one by forty arpens in the St. Louis common field, bordering on one side immediately upon the domain of five and one-fourth arpens in width, and on the other upon Moreau. Livre Terrein, No. 1,…
1Opinion of the CourtDryden, Judge
This was a suit to recover a tract of one by forty arpens of land, situate in the ancient common fields of St. Louis, now within the city limits. The plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment in the Circuit Court for eleven-fifteenths of the land, and for forty thousand dollars damages, from which the defendants have appealed to this court.
The tract in controversy was confirmed to “ Lirette’s representatives,” by the act of Congress of the 29th. of April, 1816.
The plaintiff’s case assumes that the origin of the title was a concession to Louis Lirette in 1769, by St. Ange, the French…
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