Edwards v. . Benbow

The appellant asks the Court two questions:

Were the descriptions in the various deeds introduced by plaintiff sufficient without other proof to identify the land in dispute and to justify the court in directing the verdict for the plaintiff? Was there sufficient evidence offered by the plaintiff to require the court to submit the issues tendered by defendant as to possession ?

1. The appellant insists that to recover it was necessary for the plaintiff, as in ejectment, to show by some evidence dehors the deeds that the descriptions therein fitted the lands he claimed, and, failing this,…