Ogden v. Walker's Heirs

Masterson O&den prosecutes this appeal from a judgment for eviction, obtained against him on the demise of Walker’s heirs, in an action of ejectment, instituted in the year 1834, for land held and occupied by Walker, at his death, under an executory contract of purchase from Alexander Montgomery, a patentee thereof, and which the executors of the decedent, in virtue of a power vested in them by his will, sold, in the year 1800, to Ogden, who, in the same year, entered under his contract, and has continued to occupy the land ever since.

By his contract, Ogden was to pay one hundred and seven…