Chauvin v. Wagner & Dorsett
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action in the nature of ejectment, begun by the plaintiffs in error in 1850, to recover a lot of ground in the city of St. Louis. The cause was submitted below upon an agreed case. The titles of the respective parties are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Error to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action in the nature of ejectment, begun by the plaintiffs in error in 1850, to recover a lot of ground in the city of St. Louis. The cause was submitted below upon an agreed case. The titles of the respective parties are stated in the opinion of the court. The following facts, upon which stress was laid in argument, may be added : In the.deed of F. D. Chauvin and wife to Desiré, the land conveyed is described as that conveyed to the wife by her brother-in-law, Leduc, in 1816. After the deatn of her husband in 1835, Mrs.' Chauvin lived…
1Opinion of the CourtGaMblb, Judge
The plaintiffs are the heirs of Emily Chauvin, wife of Francis D. Chauvin. They are the children of that marriage. The *540property in controversy was conveyed to their mother in 1816, before her marriage. In 1829 a deed was made by Chauvin and his wife, conveying the property to one Desiré, under whom the defendants claim title. This deed was first acknowledged before a justice of the peace in St. Louis county by Chauvin and his wife, upon which the justice made a certificate of acknowledgment, such as he would have made upon a deed, in which the wife relinquished dower to lands in his county.…
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