Patterson v. McCamant

We have not been able to perceive any principle upon which the decree in this case can stand. The principle asserted in the bill and carried out by the decree is, that a court of equity will interpose its authority by perpetual in*211junction in favor of a person in possession of land, whose title is threatened by, another person holding a worthless claim to the same land, where the person holding the adverse title is insolvent, and he has already brought two suits in ejectments and caused them to be dismissed or taken non-suits. These were the material facts upon which the decree was based.

The…