24 Mo. 215 | Mo. | 1857
delivered the opinion of the court.
In the western states the possession of an improvement on the public ’ domain may, we suppose, be considered a kind of squatter interest in the land — a subordinate species of property — held at the pleasure of the United States, and, to some extent, as between citizen and citizen, recognized and protected
The record sufficiently shows that the court refused the instruction to which we have referred, and there is nothing in the objection suggested in reference to the second new trial. (Harrison v. Cachelin, 23 Mo. 125.)
Let the judgment be reversed, and the cause remanded.