Buckmaster v. Jackson, ex dem. Carlin

This was an action of ejectment, to recover the possession of three hundred and twenty acres of land, situated in Madison county. The plaintiff, in the Circuit Court, sought to recover, under a title deduced from a person, as grantor, of the name of Pruitt, the original patentee from the United States. The defendants relied on the same source of title, deduced from a judicial sale, made under and by virtue of a judgment and execution of the Circuit Court, in which the present cause was litigated, the judgment having been rendered against the' said Pruitt, anterior to the conveyance by Pruitt…