Bledsoe's devisees v. Wells

*329OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Botie

This is a writ óf error sued out by the plaintiffs, to reverse a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant in an action of ejectment. It appears from a bill of exceptions that the plaintiffs having produced a patent from the commonwealth, bearing date the 18th of May 1802, and purporting to have issued by virtue and in consideration of two treasury warrants, the defendant, in order to invalidate the patent, offered to prove that the land lay south of the line which formed the boundary of the tract of country reserved for the officers and soldiers of…