City of St. Louis v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
'Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. George H. Shields, Judge. (1) In ejectment plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title.
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'Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. George H. Shields, Judge. (1) In ejectment plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title. St. Louis v. Blast Furnace Co.. 235 Mo. 1; Abies v. Webb, 186 Mo. 247; Mann v. Elliott, 99 Mo. 616; Mather v. Walsh, 107 Mo. 121; West v. Bretelle, 115 Mo. 653; Kingman v. Sievers, 143 Mo. 519; Large v. Fisher, 49 Mo. 307. (2) Defendant railway, as the riparian owner of blocks 66 and 77, was entitled to the accretions, if any, thereto. City v. Railway, 114 Mo. 21; St. Louis v. Blast Furnace Co., 235 Mo. 1. (3) The. contract between Carondelet…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
Ejectment. Issue joined on separate general denials. Judgment for plaintiff. Both defendants appeal.
*14Many years before Carondelet was merged in St. Louis by the Scheme and Charter, its “commons’! were surveyed and platted by authority,, there appearing therein two city lots or blocks, to-wit, 77 and 66— the latter lying north of and being coterminus with the former. Subsequently subdivided and replatted, they in part are now known as blocks 3244, 3243 and 3191. These several numeral designations are referred to in the evidence; but for convenience we will use the ancient numbers. Lying east of…
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