Neely v. Butler

Judge Simpson delivered

tlie opinion of tlie Court — Judge Graham did not sit in this ease.

This was an action of ejectment, brought by the appellants against the appellees. The following facts were established upon the trial: That the plaintiffs’ lessors were the heirs of Elizabeth Bradley, deceased ; that the said Elizabeth, during her lifetime, intermarried with Levin Bradley, and having given birth to a child, died leaving the child alive, who died four or five years after its mother; that the land in contest belonged to the said Elizabeth at the time of her marriage, having descended to…