Reynolds' Heirs v. Trustees of Glasgow Academy

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The Trustees of the Glasgow Academy brought an action of ejectment for one thousand acres of land, to which the appellants, as the heirs of John G. Reynolds, claiming title, were admitted as defendants.

The facts and law were submitted to the Circuit Court, upon an agreed case, and a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiffs below.

Without going into a detail of the facts agreed, it will be sufficient to state, that Hardin Davis, John Gorin, and four others, being a majority of the Trustees of the Glasgow Academy, on the 26th of November, 1813,…