Moss v. Currie

This is an action of ejectment. The lessor read two patents, each covering the land in controversy — one to Young and Tibbs, issued in 1785; the other to Harvey, issued in 1787.

The defendants in the action (plaintiffs here,) claimed under a patent younger than either of the former ; had enclosed apart of the interference, between their grant and those of Harvey and of Young and Tibbs, more than twenty years prior to the institution of this suit, and retained the ground thus enclosed, without interruption, up to the trial.

But a prior possession of all the land embraced in Harvey’s patent, had…