Million v. Riley

Judge Nicholas

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal, by Million, from.a verdict and judgment in ejectment, rendered against him, in favor of the appellees, in 1832.

On the trial, it was proved by the plaintiffs, that, about forty years béfore, Isaac Burgen took possession of, and improved the land in contest. After his death, the possession was continued by his four children and heirs, till between 25 and 30 years before the trial ; when Charles Burgen took possession, claiming it as his own, under the heirs of Isaac Burgen, and that he held it until 1823, when Million took the…