Trustees of Chester Church v. Blount

Jackson, Chief Justice.

In the view we entertain of the law, it is unnecessary to consider but one of the exceptions to the rulings of the court, and that is based on the refusal of the Court to continue, so as to enable the plaintiffs to give notice to defendant and his counsel to produce the deed.

The facts on the point aré, that the' deed had been lost, vas over thirty years old, and had been found by defend*781ant, and was -then in possession of ¡his -attorney, Mr. Gurley, and plaintiffs had just received information of the fact of .its being found and in pos,session.of the other side.

Plaintiffs…