Doe, on the Demise of Maguire v. Smith

Ejectment for a half lot of ground in Richmond. Merdict and judgment for the defendant. On the trial, the plaintiff introduced the following agreement:—“It is admitted by the parties, that the plaintiff’s lessor was the owner of the premises, named in his declaration, in fee-simple, in the *229spring of the year 1827, and held possession of the same, and still is the owner in fee-simple, and has the right to the sion thereof, unless the defendant can show a paramount title derived from or through him.”

The defendant then offered to prove that a judgment, in favour pf a third person, had been…