Cline's Heirs v. Catron

This was an action of trespass qaare clausum fregit, in the Circuit court of Wythe county, brought in March 3861, by John Catron against Jacob Cline and others. Upon the trial the plaintiff introduced in evideuce a patent from the commonwealth to Michael Walters for eighty-seven acres of land, dated the 8th day of July 1796. He then introduced a deed, dated the 17th day of February 1830, from five of the children and heirs of Walters to himself, by which, in consideration of sixty-three dollars, they convey to the plaintiff their undivided interest in said tract of land. And he then offered…