Patton's Lessee v. Easton
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the circuit court for the district of West Tennessee. This was an ejectment for one moiety of a lot of land lying in Nashville. The cause was argued at February term, 1815, by Humphries and Jones, for the plaintiff in error, and by P. B. Key and Swam, for the defendant, and was continued for ad- . . visement to the present term.
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The legislature of North Carolina, while Tennessee was a part of that state, passed an act establishing the tbwn of Nashville, and vesting 200 acres of land in trustees, to be. laid off in lots, and sold, and conveyed in the manner prescribed by the act.. On the 1st of July, 1784, subsequent to the passage of the act establishing the town, the trustees executed a deed regularly conveying the lot, for a moiety of which this suit was brought to Abednigo Lewellin. On the 1st of April, 1810, Shadrack Lewellin, heir at law of Abednigo, who had…
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