Blackwell v. Patton & Irwin's Lessee
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Tennessee, in an action of ejectment brought by the lessee of Patton and Erwin, against Blackwell, for 5,0QC acres of land, iu Bedford county, in the state, of Tennessee. * , At the trial the Defendant taok three bills of exceptions.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Tennessee, in an action of ejectment brought by the lessee of Patton and Erwin, against Blackwell, for 5,0QC acres of land, iu Bedford county, in the state, of Tennessee. * , At the trial the Defendant taok three bills of exceptions. The first stated*, that tiré Plaintiff produced in deiice, at the trial, a deed of bargain and sale from.!. C and Thomas Blount, to whom it was alleged the land had been granted by the state of North Carolina, while it was a part of that state. Tim deed from I. G. and T. Blount, was executed on the 9ih .of October,…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the Court as follows :
The writ of error in this case is brought to reverse a judgment obtained by the Defendants in error against the Plaintiffs in an ejectment brought in the Circuit Court of West Tennessee. At the trial, the Plaintiffs in tiiat Court offered in evidence in order to make out their title, a deed bearing date the 9f.h of October, 1794, from J. G. Blount and Thomas Blount, of North- Carolina, to David Allison, of Philadelphia, 'which deed was recorded in the county in which the lands lie on the 28th day of December, 1808. The Defendants…
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