Dausch v. Crane
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Daniel Dillon Judge. (1) Sophia White had an unimpeachable record title to the premises in dispute. (2) She also had a clear title of adverse possession for twenty years.
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Appeal from St Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Daniel Dillon Judge. (1) Sophia White had an unimpeachable record title to the premises in dispute. (2) She also had a clear title of adverse possession for twenty years. (3) Instruction, numbered 5, asked by appellant, in regard to the execution of the Sophia White paper, should have been given, as it asserts a correct legal proposition, and there is ample testimony on which to base it, and which shows that Mrs. White’s signature was obtained by at least moral duress sufficient to vitiate it. Davis v. Luster, 64 Mo. 43; Magtiire v. Savings…
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.
This is ej.ectment in which there was a verdict and judgment for defendant. The property sued for is described as fifty-five feet on St. Ange avenue extending back two hundred and sixteen feet to a width of fifty feet on Linn street, and bounded on the north by Park avenue, in the city of St. Louis. It is part of a triangular piece of ground containing one and twenty-hundredths acres, bounded on the north by Park avenue, west by St. Ange avenue, east by Linn street, and is known as city block 822. This city block is located in the northwest corner of block 2 of Charles DeWard’s survey of the…
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- Silliman v. United States. United States v. SillimanSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Allen v. MansfieldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1891
- Key v. JenningsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1877
- Davis v. LusterSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Merchants' Bank v. ClavinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1875
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