Kissell v. Board of President of the St. Louis Public Schools
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an ejectment for a lot south of Mill Creek, in Eran® and Langham’s addition to the city of St. Louis. On the trial, the plaintiffs below, defendants in error, offered tbe following documents in evidence : - 1. An order of the St. Louis Court of Common Pleas incorporating the town of St. Louis, dated November 9, 1809, a copy of which may be found in the report of the case of Eberle v. Public Schools, 11 Mo.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an ejectment for a lot south of Mill Creek, in Eran® and Langham’s addition to the city of St. Louis. On the trial, the plaintiffs below, defendants in error, offered tbe following documents in evidence : - 1. An order of the St. Louis Court of Common Pleas incorporating the town of St. Louis, dated November 9, 1809, a copy of which may be found in the report of the case of Eberle v. Public Schools, 11 Mo. Rep. 248. 2. A map marked X, purporting to be a plat and description of the survey of the out-boundary line of the town of St. Louis, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
G-AMBiB, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court., The present state of the decisions in this court, upon the questions discussed in this case, seems to require a more minute examination of them than would otherwise be thought necessary.
The reports of previous decisions contain-such full extracts from the different acts of congress affecting the titles, that a brief statement of their provisions is all that will now be made.
The first section of the act of June 18th, 1812, (2 Stat. at large, 748,) by its own terms confirms the claims of the inhabitants of the several towns and villages in…
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