Demill v. Moffat

Tins is an action of ejectment. The plaintiffs claim title to the land in dispute as heirs at law of one Thorn. The defendant claims through a deed which he alleges was *411given by Thorn in his life-time to one Hamilton. He also claims by tax-title and by adverse possession for twenty years. Elaborate testimony was taken in the court below, at the conclusion of which the defendant would seem to have insisted that the plaintiffs had not proved their heirship, and also that by reason of a failure to suggest of record in due form the death of a plaintiff, the surviving plaintiffs were not in…