Fry v. Smith

-Judge Nicholas

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This-action of ejectment was brought, in 1819, on dem*ses *n t'le names of John Fry, Joshua Fry, Charles Vancoover, John Vaughan, Charles Vaughan and John Fiott. The land in contest ‘was patented the 15th of December, 1772, by the then governor of Virginia, to ■John Fry, in consideration of military services rendered under the governor’s proclamation of 1754 ; conveyed by Joshua Fry, his heir at law, to Vancoover, in 1792, hnd by him, to the Vaughans and Fiott, in 1793.

The land was settled on by Vancoover, in 1788, and the possession held by…