Den ex dem. Walker v. Turner

This was an ejectment brought in. May, 1818, in the Circuit Court fyr the District, of Tennessee, by the plaintiff-in error, to recover possession of a lot of ground in the town of Nashville, distinguished in the plan of the town,., as lot No. 85. Upon the trial of the cause, the plaintiff gave in evidence, a deed for flit* lot. in controversy, from the commissioners of the toivn of Nashville to the lessor of the plaintiff bearing date the 6th off August, 1790, and then proved the defendant to be in possession of the same at the time the suit was brought.

The defendant then gave in evidence a…