Ambs v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

This is an action to recover the possession of a lot of land in the city of St. Paul, described as lot 6, in block 86, in St. *267Paul Proper, so called. The court directed a verdict for the defendant. This lot comprises a part of a larger tract of land, conveyed by patent from the United States to Louis Robert, in June, 1849. Both parties claim to have derived title from Robert. The land including this lot appears to have been platted into town lots by Robert, Guerin, and others, as early as 1847, although the plat was not acknowledged until February, 1849. In that platting the land in question…