Smith v. Prewit

Judge Rowan

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action of ejectment brought by Smith and Preston, lessors, against Prewit, tenant in possession.

Plaintiffs, upon the trial, gave in evidence to the jury, a patent from the commonwealth of Virginia to Barnes, for 2,000 acres of land, and a deed from Barnes and wife to them. They also gave in evidence a patent from the commonwealth of Virginia to Boyd for 2,000 acres of land. They also exhibited a connected plat made out by the surveyor of the county, whereby it appeared that the two tracts, viz. that of Barnes and that of Boyd, had been…