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CHOUTEAU v. MOLONY

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57 U.S. 203 (1854)

16 How. 203

14 L.Ed. 905

HENRY CHOUTEAU, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. PATRICK MOLONY.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 23, 1854.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Upon these points of demurrer the case came up to this court, and was argued by Mr. Cornick and Mr. Johnson, for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Platt Smith, Mr. T.S. Wilson, and Mr. Cushing, (Attorney-General,) for the defendant in error.

Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

It is necessary to make a statement of the facts of the case from the pleadings, in order that the opinion which we shall give may be fully understood.

It is a suit for the recovery of land, but not according to the form of the proceedings in ejectment. It is a petition according to the course of pleading allowed in the...

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