Wilsons v. Bibb

Judge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Bibb instituted an action of trespass quare clausum fr eg it, against the Wilsons. They pleaded not guilty, and liberum tenemenium.

In the progress of the trial, Bibb offered in evidence a patent to Samuel Meredith, of elder date than that under which the appellants claim, covering the locus in quo; the transcript of the record of an action of ejectment in the federal court for the Kentucky district — Meredith’s lessee vs. Picket and others ; a copy of the decree of the general court, in favor of Bibb against certain persons as heirs of said…