Shearman v. Irvine's Lessee

Error to the Circuit Court for the district of Georgia, in an action of ejectment, brought (on the 15th of October 1804), by Irvine’s Lessee against Shearman, for a tract of land in Camden county, in the state of Georgia. The defendant below took a bill of exceptions to the refusal of the court to nonsuit the plaintiff on the trial, because he had not proved “ an entry within seven years after the title of the grantees accrued, or any entry by either of the heirs or jtersons claiming under the grantees, within seven years after their titles respectively accrued.” The lessor of the plaintiff…