Byrd v. Phillips

This is an ejectment bill, filed to récover a tract of land lying in Scott county, embraced in entry 777, upon which was issued a grant by the State to T. B. Eastland, No. 21937. Complainant through a line of intermediate conveyances deraigns title from this grant.

The defendants Hall, Schaver, and Cross rely for defense upon the statute of limitations of seven years, and, in addition, that independent' of the statute they have a good and indefeasible title to all the lands within this grant.

In order to a proper understanding of the points raised for and against the defense of the statute of…