Chiles v. Calk

OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyxe.

¿This was an ejectment, on the trial of which it appeared that the plaintiff derived title to the land in controversy under a patent bearing date less than twenty years before the commencement of the action; and that the defendant claimed under a patent younger than that of the plain* tiff, hut which issued upon a survey of a settlement and pre-emption made and registered more than twenty years prior to bringing the action; and the defendant proved that he, or some pne claiming under him, had been in possession of the land in contest upwards of twenty…