Willingham v. Potter

Ejectment. The chancellor sustained an objection to a certified copy of a deed introduced as a link in defendant Potter’s chain of title, on the ground that the certificate of acknowledgment was fatally defective. This certificate reads:

“State of Tennessee, Fentress County.

“Personally appeared before me Simeon Hinds, clerk of the county court for said county, Martha Wil-lingham, with whom I am personally acquainted, and acknowledged the foregoing deed to be her act and deed for the purposes therein contained. Given un^.der my hand at office in Jamestown this 13th day of 'July, 1875.

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