Barbour v. Whitlock

[Absent Judge Mills.]

This case is before the court upon a re-hearing granted, after the opinion delivered on the 16th October, 1824, affirming the decree of the circuit court. The former opinion considered, in extenso, the, collateral questions, the reasons and conclusions upon those questions are approved and affirmed.

The want of a history of the case in the former opinion, now requires a statement in reference to the principal question.

Without entering into unnecessary details, suffice it to say, that the possession of Jacob Rager, the grandfather of Whitlock, the appellee, was taken, in…