Boone v. Moore
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from St. Charles Circuit Court. I. The confirmation of this tract of land was to the man who exhibited it to the board of commissioners as his property and procured its confirmation, and not to David Cole the original grantee who had long before parted with the title, and never set up any claim to it. See Bisuel vs. Penrose’s heirs, lately decided by the Sup. C. of the TJ. S. II.
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APPEAL from St. Charles Circuit Court. I. The confirmation of this tract of land was to the man who exhibited it to the board of commissioners as his property and procured its confirmation, and not to David Cole the original grantee who had long before parted with the title, and never set up any claim to it. See Bisuel vs. Penrose’s heirs, lately decided by the Sup. C. of the TJ. S. II. It was not necessary for the plainliffs to produce the original papers constituting the chain of title from Cole to Richardson, but tor the purposes of this suit it was sufficient to produce the confirmation…
1Opinion of the Court
Napton J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action of ejectment, brought by the heirs of John W.Boone to recover possession of a tract of land in St. Charles county, containing about three hundred and twenty acres. The plaintiffs’ title was derived from a confirmation under the act of July 4, 1836. Their title papers were the following:
1. The report of the board of commissioners, by which it appears that in November 1833, the claim of David Cole to four hundred ar-pens of land, according to the concession, was confirmed to said .David Cole or his legal representatives. The…
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