Taylor v. Cox

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In this action of ejectment, brought on the several demises of Janies Taylor and others, the jury found separate verdicts for the defendants, John Cox and Thomas Lancaster, and the plaintiffs motion for a new trial, as to each, having been overruled, a separate judgment was entered for each defendant, -for the reversal of each of which judgments, the plaintiff has appealed to this Court. The two cases, thus growing out of the same trial and standing on the same record, will be considered and decided together.

The action was brought in October,…