Ramsey's Devisees v. Trent

delivexed the opinion of the Court, which was suspended by petition for re-hearing unlilthe 27th July, when the petition v>as overruled.

In bar of this action of ejectment, which was brought upon the joint and several demise of nine lessors, the defendants, under the 3d section of the champerty act of 1824, (Statute law, 286,) pleaded that on the 9th day of August, 1845, (which was some days before the commencement of the action,) the defendants severally held possession of the land sued for adverse to the ■right and title of the plaintiff’s lessors, and that on that day, certain of the…