Dougal v. Fryer

This was an action of ejectment 'brought by Fryer v. Dougal, to recover a lot of ground in the city of St. Louis. The case was submitted to the Court below, and the facts found after the manner of a special verdict, and upon the finding, judgment was rendered for Fryer, to reverse which, Dougal now prosecutes his writ of error in this Court.

*30The facts as found by the special verdict are in substance, that on the Sih day of November, 1803, Santeago Clamorgan, and Joseph Braseau, at St. Louis,-in the province of Upper Louisiana, before Carlos Dehault Delasous, then Lieutenant Governor of Upper…