Cutler v. . Blackman

The plaintiff produced a grant to James Spiller from the State, dated in October, 1787, and deduced title regularly from the grantee. Neither the grantee nor any person under him has ever had any actual possession of the premises in dispute. The defendant claims under one Marley, to whom a grant issued from the State in November, 1805, in pursuance of a sale made by the commissioner of confiscated property, who had sold the land described in the declaration as the property of one Thomas Christie of Ireland, whose property in the State had been confiscated by the act of 1779, ch. 2. The…