Linderman v. Edson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Land Court. This was a suit in the nature of an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiffs as heirs of Henry Linderman, against the heirs of Homer Edson, to recover possession of a tract of fifty arpens of land in the county of St. Louis. The defendants set up title in themselves. Taylor Johnson is the common source of title.
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Error to St. Louis Land Court. This was a suit in the nature of an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiffs as heirs of Henry Linderman, against the heirs of Homer Edson, to recover possession of a tract of fifty arpens of land in the county of St. Louis. The defendants set up title in themselves. Taylor Johnson is the common source of title. In support of their title the plaintiffs introduced a transcript from the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of St. Louis county. Prom this transcript it appeared that on the 21st of April, 1845, there was filed in that office the following…
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, Judge)
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is made an objection to the action of the court below that it admitted in evidence the certificate of the justice who returned the transcript to the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court, which does not show how he became possessed of the papers and records of the justice whose proceedings he transcribed and certified. The justice who certified the transcript not -being the same officer before whom the cause was tried and by whom the judgment was entered, it is maintained that it should appear by evidence, or at least that his certificate…
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