Taylor v. Shields' Heirs

*295Opinion of the Court,

by Judge Mills.

THIS is an ejectment, and verdict and judgment rendered for the defendant below, to which the of the plaintiff have prosecuted this writ of error.

In the progress of the trial, the lessors of the read a patent from the Commonwealth of Virginia to James Taylor, and next offered a deed made by him, the same land, to James Taylor, Reuben T. Taylor and Edmund Taylor, his sons, dated on the 28th June, 1805, acknowledged by the grantor before the county court of Caroline county, Virginia, where he resided, on the 8th of October, 1805, and certified, with the…