Young v. Withers

James Young, having failed in an action of ejectment, which he brought, in the year 1836, against Delia Withers, now complains that the Circuit Judge erred, to his prejudice, in instructing the jury as to the effect of a long continued possession by those under whom the defendant holds.

The plaintiff claims under a patent for eight hundred acres to Richard Barbour; and the defendant holds under a junior grant, for one thousand acres, to William Withers, the father of her deceased husband.

William Withers, being a patentee, also, of five hundred acres, adjoining his one thousand acres, settled…