Elliott v. Walker

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

The appellant, David Elliott, brought this action, in ejectment, alleging that he was the owner and entitled to the possession of twenty-five acres of land, describing it, that it was wrongfully withheld from Mm by the appellees, defendants below. The answer traversed the allega*72tions of the petition and affirmatively pleaded that the defendants were the owners and in the possession of the land sought to he recovered. In a reply the plaintiff set up that the ancestor of the appellees sold and conveyed the land in controversy to- his remlote vender,…