Connelly's h'rs v. Chiles

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal taken by the defendants in an action of ejectment, from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff.

The first question which the record presents, relates to the competency of a witness who was admitted by the circuit court, the objection of the defendants in that court notwithstanding.

The witness had intermarried with one of the heirs of William Hays, deceased, under conveyance from whom the lessor of the plaintiff claimed the land in controversy, and the witness had executed the deed of conveyance for himself as well as…