Haley v. Hickman's Heirs

Opinion of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyle.

THIS was an action of ejectment, on the trial of which, in the circuit court, the lessors of the plaintiff, in support of their title, read in evidence a patent from the commonwealth to James Hickman, deceased, and *267proved that they were the heirs of Hickman, and that the defendant resided within the bounds of the land granted by said patent. It, moreover, appeared by the testimony of a witness introduced on the part of the lessors of the plaintiff, that, many years ago, James Hickman had put his son-in-law, Joseph Hill, in possession of a tenement within…