Crain v. Huntington

GAINES, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the plaintiffs in error to recover of defendant in error one-half of a league of land patented to W. J. Crain, the plaintiffs’ ancestor. The plaintiffs claimed as heirs of the original grantee. The defendant claimed through an alleged deed from Crain to one John English, and it was admitted that he had a consecutive chain of title down to himself from English to the land in controversy.

The plaintiffs proved that W. J. Crain was dead and that they were his heirs. The defendant sought to establish the deed claimed to have been executed by W. J.…