City of St. Louis v. Laclede Gas Light Co.

This is an action of ejectment to recover a'strip of land claimed to be a part of Howard street. Thomas J. Payne and his four brothers inherited this and other property, and the brothers conveyed to him. Thereafter, and in 1831, Thomas J. Payne made a deed to Samuel McKee by which he conveyed two parcels of land each fronting on the Mississippi river and extending back westward, one, one hundred and thirty-four and the other one hundred and sixty-seven feet. There was a strip of land fifty-eight feet wide between the above-described parcels; and by the same deed, Payne conveyed to McKee the…