Shackleford v. Miller

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is a writ of right, in which Rachel Shackleford, the demandant, having failed in the Circuit Court, now insists here, that the Circuit Judge erred in admitting, as evidence against her on the trial of the mise, a conveyance to James Barnet, executed in 1811, by Bennet C. Shackleford, her husband, since dead, and certified as having been acknowledged, also, by herself, upon privy examination, for the tract of land claimed in her count; the inchoate title to which had been devised to her by her father, Samuel Bell, who died in 1783, and…