Cardwell v. Sprigg's Heirs

This is an action of ejectment, on sundry distinct de-m¡ses — one of which is in the name of the heirs of Abraham Owen, who was the senior patentee of the land sued for, and another is in the name of William Card-well, to whom those heirs conveyed their title, on the 5th of April, 1832.

A tenant, who had occupied the land since 1806, under Owens, having abandoned the possession of it, the defendants, the heirs of Osborne Sprigg, who claimed dt under a junior grant, leased it, in July, 1831, and whilst it was unoccupied, to one Shipman, who owned and then' resided on an adjoining tract, and who…