Doe, Lessee of Lewis & Wife v. Mfarland & Others

Marshazi, Ch. J.

delivered the opinion of the Court as follows :

This is, a writ of error to a judgment rendered in Circuit Court of the United Stales for the district of Kentucky, in an ejectment by the Plaintiffs in error, against theDefendants.- ..

At the trial of the cause, the Plaintiffs produced and read in evidence, a patent from the commonwealth of Virginia, granting certain lands therein described iying in the county of Nelson, in the now state of Kentucky, to John May, John Banister, Kennon Jones, Thomas Shore and Christopher M‘Gonico. lie then offered in evidence the last will…