Kercheval v. Triplett's Heirs

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action of ejectment, brought by the anpel-*494lees against the appellant, to recover the possession of # tract of land of 10,000 acres.

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On the trial, the parties made an agreed case, comprising the following facts: That, on the 10th day of August, 1786, a patent from the commonwealth issued to William Triplett and Henry Crutcher, for the tract of 10,000 acres, as described in the declaration, that on the 28th of July, 1795, Triplett and Crutcher conyeyed the…