Hood v. Mathers

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion.

This is an action of ejectment, brought on the demise of Hannah Hood as lessor of the plaintiff, against Richard Mathers; and on the trial, the lessor of the plaintiff gave in evidence, a patent from the commonwealth of Virginia to William Greenough, dated on the 20th February, 1786, and a conveyance from William Greenough to John Hood, for an undivided moiety of the tract contained in the patent, which deed bore date on the 29th July, 1786. She also proved the boundaries of the patent, and that the defendant resided within it, at the commencement of the suit.…