May's h'rs v. Slaughter

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion.

This is an ejectment brought by John L. May on his Separate demise, and Daniel Eppes and Polly his wife, late Polly May, on their separate demise to the nominal plaintiff On the trial in the court below, the appellants, *506who were lessors of the plaintiff, gave in evidence’á patient ,0 John May, dated in December, 1735, and proved ft at' its boundaries included the residence of tbtr appellee, Slaughter — and that John May was killed by the savages in March or April, 1790, on the Ohio at the mouth of the Sciota, and that the lessors of the plaintiff were bis only…