Reid v. Board of Education
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Macon Circuit Court. — Hon. Andrew Ellison, Judge. 1. The filing of the town plat in Lewis county was inoperative, either as a statutory dedication or as a dedication by deed or grant, to vest the fee in Lewis county for the reason: (1) That the land was situated without the territorial limits of Lewis county. 1 Terr.
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Appeal from Macon Circuit Court. — Hon. Andrew Ellison, Judge. 1. The filing of the town plat in Lewis county was inoperative, either as a statutory dedication or as a dedication by deed or grant, to vest the fee in Lewis county for the reason: (1) That the land was situated without the territorial limits of Lewis county. 1 Terr. Laws, 650, 651. (2) The dedication was for the purpose of containing the court house of a county to be, in the future, formed out of territory lying without the limits of Lewis county. Such a dedication could not take effect, because the future existence of the…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
This is an action of ejectment brought by James A. Reid to recover possession of block No. 9, in that part of Edina, Knox county, laid out by Wm. J. Smallwood, and at his death revived in the .name of the *299present plaintiff. The defense set up is a dedication of the block in question to public use by said Smallwood, by filing in Lewis county, on the 18th day of November, 1839, a town plat, on which the block in question was designated and set apai't for public use, and also by a deed endorsed on said plat, purporting to quit-claim the block in question to Lewis county for public use. The…
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