Case Name: Alt, Plaintiff in Error, v. Norman
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1895-05-14
Citations: 128 Mo. 330
Docket Number: 
Parties: Alt, Plaintiff in Error, v. Norman.
Judges: 
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 128
Pages: 330–331

Head Matter:
Alt, Plaintiff in Error, v. Norman.
Division One,
May 14, 1895.
1. Swamp Lands: conveyance: county court. A county was authorized, under the act of 1869 (Acts, page 67), to sell swamplands at private sale.
2. -: -: seal. A common law seal affixed to a conveyance is sufficient in the absence of the statutory seal.
3. -: -: -r. The seal of the county court impressed upon paper attached to the deed, and adopted by a commissioner appointed to convey swamp lands under Bevised Statutes, 1879, section 671, is sufficient.
4. -: -: -. The acknowledgment of a commissioner appointed to convey county lands, may be considered in determining whether the seal used was adopted as his seal.
Error to Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas. — Hon. Maurice Cramer, Judge.
Reversed and remanded.
J. W. Limbaugh for plaintiff in error.
Wilson Cramer for defendant in error.
Syllabi taken from 127 Mo. 466.

Opinion:
Per Curiam. —
The same question of law on the same state of facts, with only a change in the name of the acting defendant, is raised in this case, as was presented and passed upon in the case of Alt v. Stoker, 127 Mo. 466. In that controversy, as in this, the only question raised was as to the sufficiency of a deed made by Cape Q-irardeau county by John R. Henderson, commissioner, to William J. Alt, the plaintiff herein, covering both tracts of land in that and this suit. On the authority and for the reasons given in the case of Alt v. Stoker, supra, the judgment of the trial' court, in this case, will be reversed and cause remanded for a new trial.