Turner v. Patterson

Doe, on the demise of eight persons claiming to be the surviving children of Catharine Patterson, deceased having, in an action of ejectment, obtained a judgment against Thomas Turner, for eight thirteenths of a tract of land containing about fifty acres — each party prosecutes a writ of error to reverse the judgment, and presents various questions for revision by this Court.

It appears from the bill of exceptions, that Jesse Patterson, who held ah obligation on one Mobberly, for a conveyance of the legal title to the tract of land which is the subject of controversy in this suit, sold the…