Crews v. Russell

1. The description of the six acres of land sought to be recovered, as part of 250 acres claimed by the plaintiffs and fully described in their ejectment suit, was not too indefinite to support a judgment in their favor since, even though the description of the six acres was indefinite, the sheriff could nevertheless put them in possession of any part of the 250 acres found to be in the possession of the defendant.

2. Since evidence of prior possession alone was sufficient to put the defendant on proof that he had a better title than that of the plaintiffs, where the latter, after attaching an…