Billon v. Larimore
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Land Court. This was an action by appellants to annul certain deeds, and for possession of 471 arpens of land in St. Louis county, being U. S. survey No. 141, in the name of John Graham.
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Appeal from, St. Louis Land Court. This was an action by appellants to annul certain deeds, and for possession of 471 arpens of land in St. Louis county, being U. S. survey No. 141, in the name of John Graham. Graham conveyed the land to his daughter, Margaret Graham, by deed dated March 28,1812. Soon after said conveyance Margaret intermarried with Michael Connell, she then being between 16 and 17 years of age; she died in the fall of 1813, at the age of 18 years, leaving the plaintiff, Mary Connell, her only child, then an infant of a few months old, and only issue by said marriage. Said…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, Judge
The case turns upon the statute of limitations. It was *386shown that John Graham, being seized in fee of the land in controversy, which he occupied and cultivated as a farm, by his.deed dated March 28, 1812, conveyed the same to his daughter Margaret, then a minor; that the daughter married Michael Connell, and died under age, in 1813, leaving an infant daughter, Mary, her sole heir-at-law ; and that Mary, born in 1813, married Cyprian Billon (plaintiff), May 14, 1829, while yet a minor.
A deed of this land from Michael. Connell and Margaret his wife to Edward Hempstead, under which the…
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