Benningfield v. Reed & Sutherland

.Jjukte Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Tjhis -was an action of ejectment, on the trial of which Reed and Sutherland, the lessors of the plaintiff, ¡read in evidence a patent to William Greenough; and •in order to deduce a title from the patentee, they produced in evidence a transcript of the record and proceedings in a suit in chancery in the Hardin Circuit -Court, in which Richard Mather was complainant, against the unknown heirs of William Greenough, thepatentee; and a deed tp the complainant in pursuance ¡<jf -a decree rendered in that suit.

The rpcord exhibits no .evidence of an…