Lewis v. City of St. Louis

This cause comes here by appeal from the *596St. Louis court of appeals, and is an action of ejectment» commenced by Simon E. Lewis in the circuit court of St. Louis county, against the city of Oarondelet, in 1860, for the recovery of lot 16, in survey No. 2, of the common of Oarondelet, north of the river Des Peres, in said county, containing nine arpents and forty-nine hundredths. The petition is in the usual form, and the answer contains a general and a specific denial of the allegations therein In 1870, by virtue df an act of the General Assembly, the city of Oarondelet became merged into the…