Logan v. Moore

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This action of ejectment was brought upon the demise 0£ James Logan, who claimed title to the land in con- ° .„ . . . test under a sheriff s sale and deed, made in 1829, m virtue of two executions which issued on a judgment and decree for costs against the heirs of Richard Steele, in their own right.

i The plaintiff, to show title in the defendants in the execution, exhibited a patent to, Jacob Myers, for one thousand acres, on a preemption warrant, covering the land in controversy, and several deeds, by which the ' title was transmitted from…