Rock House Fork Land Co. v. Gray

Millbe, Judge:

In ejectment, on demurrer by defendants to plaintiff’s evidence, and a conditional verdict of the jury, the court below gave judgment for plaintiff, and that it recover of defendants possession of the 34.7 acres of land sued for. A writ of error to that judgment was awarded here on the petition of the defendant John W. Gray.

On the trial plaintiff undertook to deraign title down through many mesne grants and conveyances, beginning with *505a grant to DeWitt Clinton, dated February 17, 1796, for 130,000 aeres, excepting 126,000 aeres of prior claims, which, as the grant recites,…