Dallam v. Handley

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion of the court.

Dallam, the appellant, brought his ejectment against Handley, and issue being joined, on the trial, the plaintiff gave in evidence a connected plat, made out and returned by the surveyor, and proved the plat to be true. On that plat the claims of plaintiff and defendant interfering largely with each other, was laid down. He further proved the residence of the defendant on the ground in contest at the date of suit, and then produced and read his patent from the commonwealth which was dated the 14th of August, 1817, and was granted on a certificate…