Maguire v. Tyler

IN error the Supreme Court of Missouri.

The controversy involved a question of ancient French proceedings, and of boundary near St. Louis; a good deal of the testimony being of an early kind. Except to persons already acquainted with the topography of the place where the controversy lay, and with the controversy itself, any attempt to state it would be unsuccessful without explanatory diagrams. The execution of these requires time and the reporter's personal supervision; and had the report been deferred till another volume, when his attention would not have been engaged in attending the court, they would have been given. A request, however, from a source entitled to great respect to present the opinion in this volume will account for their absence; a matter the less important since the case presents nothing which ministers to juridical science, or that is interesting except to parties concerned in the controversy. To such diagrams are unnecessary.

Messrs. Ewing and Glover, for the plaintiff in error; Messrs. B. A. Hill and P. Phillips, contra.

Mr. Justice CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court, stating the case.