Rogers v. Moore's Heirs

Jubge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The heirs of James F. .Moore having obtained a judgment in ejectment against the appellant Rogers for the land in contest, the latter exhibited a bill in chancery claiming to have the superior equity to it, under two entries, one in the name of Thomas Owsley and the other in the name of John Larue, and praying á surren*402der of the legal title by Moore’s heirs, their ancestor having obtained the elder patent.

The statute of limitations, tho’ not in terms applying to suits in chancery, will be applied by the Chancellor in analogy to its application…