Coxe v. Joiner

OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyle.

-This was an ejectment. The demise is laid in the declaration to have been made the 1st day of September 1812. The jury on the trial found a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court on an agreed case ; and the court being of opinion that the law was for the plaintiff, gave a judgment accordingly : from which the defendant has appealed to this court.

It appears from the agreed case that the deed from ,which the lessor of the plaintiff derives title, bears date |the 5th of September 1812. This being subsequent to the date of the demise…