Webb v. Den
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the circuit court of the United States for the middle district of Tennessee. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
On the trial of this case, the plaintiff below having shown that the lessor of plaintiff was one of the children of Anthony Bledsoe,— also the will of Anthony Bledsoe, and a grant of five thousand acres of land, by .the State of North Carolina, to Nicholas Lang — offered in evidence a copy of a paper writing purporting to be a deed from John J. Lang, Basset Stith, and Mary his wife, and others, devisees of the legal estate, to the “ legatees and devisees of the late Anthony Bledsoe,” for the one fourth part of said tract, or, twelve hundred and fifty acres, by certain metes and bounds. This…
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