Schultz v. Lindell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an ejectment 'to recover possession of a common-field lot conceded to William Bizet, February 7, 1769, and confirmed to his legal representatives by act of Congress of July 4, 1836 (Dec. 286), and surveyed as U. S. survey No. 3,340, and being the same lot cultivated by John B. Provenchere prior to December 20,1803, and conveyed by Mary Provenchere and John Louis Provenchere to Risdon H. Price by deed dated August 29,…
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an ejectment 'to recover possession of a common-field lot conceded to William Bizet, February 7, 1769, and confirmed to his legal representatives by act of Congress of July 4, 1836 (Dec. 286), and surveyed as U. S. survey No. 3,340, and being the same lot cultivated by John B. Provenchere prior to December 20,1803, and conveyed by Mary Provenchere and John Louis Provenchere to Risdon H. Price by deed dated August 29, 1816. The defence was a traverse of plaintiffs’ title, and the statute of limitations. At the trial, the plaintiffs gave in…
1Opinion of the CourtFags, Judge
Upon the record of the case, as presented by the appeal from the St. Louis Court of Commoxx Pleas to this court, we find but two points upon which it would seem to be necessary that any opinioxx should be given ; both of these points relate to the direction of the jury as to the law applicable to the facts shown by the testimony.
*351This was an action of ejectment, commenced in the St. Louis Land Court and removed by change of venue to the Court of Common Pleas, to recover a lot of one by forty arpents of land conceded to William Bizet on the 7th day of February, 1769, and confirmed to his legal…
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