Primm v. Walker
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Si. Louis Land Court. I. The instruction relating to title, given for defendant, decided that the deeds of Alfred Skinner to Bailey’s trustees, and to Blumenthal, embraced in their description the land in controversy, and thus took from the jury the whole case. The court could not, as a matter of law, decide that said deeds conveyed the premises in suit, on the evidence presented in the case. II.
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Appeal from Si. Louis Land Court. I. The instruction relating to title, given for defendant, decided that the deeds of Alfred Skinner to Bailey’s trustees, and to Blumenthal, embraced in their description the land in controversy, and thus took from the jury the whole case. The court could not, as a matter of law, decide that said deeds conveyed the premises in suit, on the evidence presented in the case. II. The court, in giving that instruction, erred in deciding that the land in controversy was conveyed by said deeds of Alfred Skinner or his grantees. It is not described in, or properly…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, Judge
The land sued for was bounded on the south by a line distant one hundred feet southwardly from Spruce street ex*96tended westwardly from Reilly’s addition to the city of St. Louis, on the east by tlie west line of said addition, on the north by Spruce street extended westwardly, and west by a line parallel with and distant eastwardly from Tayon avenue one hundred feet. This description would include a portion of the two lots numbered 58 and 59 of Reilly’s addition, which were bounded east by Skinner street, and west by “ the channel of Spring creek, called Chouteau’s pond,” as they were…
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