Shackelford v. Purket

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an ejectment brought by Shackelford to recover from Purket a tract of land containing about 200 acres, known by the name of the Garden place, the title whereof was asserted by the former under a deed of conveyance executed to him by the latter.

*436The ejectment was commenced in June, 1817, and the trial bad in September, 1819.

On the trial the plaintiff produced and read in evidence to the jury a deed of conveyance given to him by Purket for the land in contest, and bearing date the 13th December, 1816. The defendant then introduced evidence…