Finlay v. Humble

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action of ejectment. On the trial the lessors of the plaintiff produced in evidence a grant from the commonwealth to them for the land in controversy, bearing date the 27th of November, 1815, and proved the defendant to be in possession. On the part of the defendants there was read in evidence a patent from the commonwealth to the heirs of Silas Train, bearing date the 4th of Nov. 1790, and having proved that it covered the land in contest, they interrogated a witness whether they or their ancestor had not settled on said land in…