Fine v. St. Louis Public Schools
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This is the same case which was heretofore in the supreme court. (See Fine v. St. Louis Public Schools, 23 Mo. 570.) The plaintiffs claim title to an undivided interest in the premises, a lot of one by forty arpens in the St. Louis common field, as heirs and legal representatives of Philip Pine, to whom said lot is alleged to have been confirmed by the act of Congress of June 13, 1812. Evidence was adduced by plaintiffs to show that said…
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This is the same case which was heretofore in the supreme court. (See Fine v. St. Louis Public Schools, 23 Mo. 570.) The plaintiffs claim title to an undivided interest in the premises, a lot of one by forty arpens in the St. Louis common field, as heirs and legal representatives of Philip Pine, to whom said lot is alleged to have been confirmed by the act of Congress of June 13, 1812. Evidence was adduced by plaintiffs to show that said Fine cultivated and possessed the lot in controversy prior to December 20, 1803, and up to the time of the falling down…
1Opinion of the Court
Ewing, Judge, delivered
the opinion of the court.
The special act of 1855 relating to jurors in St. Louis county was properly disregarded by the court in directing a special venire for a jury to be summoned outside of the city limits. The inhabitants of the, city were not competent jurors. This point was not decided in the case of Eberle v. The Schools, 11 Mo. 261, (two of the judges making no allusion to it in their opinions ;) but we concur in the conclusion of the judge (Scott) who gave an opinion on that point.
On the trial the plaintiff read in evidence, among other conveyances, a deed from…
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- Guitard v. StoddardSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
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