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CITY OF ST. LOUIS v. UNITED STATES

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92 U.S. 462 (1876)

23 L.Ed. 731

CITY OF ST. LOUIS, v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

May 8, 1876.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Montgomery Blair for the appellants.

Mr. Solicitor-General Phillips, contra.

MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

The subject of this controversy is the title to the land known as Jefferson Barracks, consisting of about seventeen hundred acres, five miles below the city of St. Louis. It lies within the lines of a survey of the commons of Carondelet, containing a much larger quantity, — nearly ten thousand acres.

The present suit was instituted in the Court of Claims, in 1859, by the city of Carondelet. As the...

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