Vasquez v. Ewing
Supreme Court of Missouri
flppeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This is an action of ejectment, brought by plaintiffs against defendant in the St. Louis Land Court, in 1857, to recover possession of a certain parcel of land in St. Louis county, fully described in the plaintiffs’ petition, containing thirty-two arpents, and designated as U. S. survey 2965. On the trial, plaintiffs offered in evidence: 1. A certified copy of an extract from the list of lots furnished by Recorder Hunt to the office of…
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flppeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This is an action of ejectment, brought by plaintiffs against defendant in the St. Louis Land Court, in 1857, to recover possession of a certain parcel of land in St. Louis county, fully described in the plaintiffs’ petition, containing thirty-two arpents, and designated as U. S. survey 2965. On the trial, plaintiffs offered in evidence: 1. A certified copy of an extract from the list of lots furnished by Recorder Hunt to the office of the Surveyor-General of Illinois and Missouri, as those the titles to which had been proven up before him under the…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, Judge
In the case of Vasquez v. Ewing, 24 Mo. 31, in which the plaintiff stood upon the same list and survey which are again presented in this record, it was decided that the commons title, under the act of June 13, 1812, with an approved survey, was equivalent to a patent, and must prevail, unless the plaintiff could prove the facts necessary to show that no title passed; and it was conceded that this might be done by actual proof that the claimant had inhabited, cultivated, or possessed a lot, within the meaning of that act, prior to the 20th day of December, 1803, situated within the boundaries…
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- Fine v. St. Louis Public SchoolsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1860
- Stanford v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1856
- Kissell v. Board of President and Directors of St. Louis Public SchoolsSupreme Court of the United States · 1856
- Page v. ScheibelSupreme Court of Missouri · 1847
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- Baird v. St. Louis Hospital Ass'nSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
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