Thatcher v. Powell

This cause was argued at the last term, and at the present term the opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Marshall.

This was an action of ejectment instituted by the defendants in error against the plaintiffs, to recover 640 acres of land in Montgomery county. Upon the trial in the Court below, the lessors of the plaintiffs, in support of their title, read in evidence a grant from the State of North Carolina to Stokeley Donaldson, dated the 12th of January, 1797; also a deed for the same land from the said Donaldson to John Love, dated the 13th of January, 1797, and registered…