Masterson's Heirs v. Marshall's Heirs

Chief Justice Robertson and Judge Ewing

composing the Court for the trial of-this case, the former delivered the following Opinion.

Upon a bill filed, in 1820, by Humphrey Marshall and Anna Maria Marshall, his wife, claiming, against the appellants—whose possession under the elder grant had been continued ever since the year 1795—the superior equitable title to part of a tract of land entered by her brother, John Marshall, and granted to his and her father, Thomas Marshall, and to a portion of which she asserted title under a deed purporting to have been executed by the said Thomas, in 1794,…