Kennedy's heirs v. Meredith

*465OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boylé.

— This is a contest for land claimed under adverse titles. The defendant in error was complainant in the court below, and derives his* claim under the junior patent, but the elder entry. His claim was sustained by the decree of that court, to reverse which the defendants have prosecuted this writ of error.

The main point relied on is, that the court below improperly admitted as evidence a paper purporting to be a deed of conveyance from the patentee to the Cofnplai-mant, without proof of .its execution.

To this point two answers were given in the argument —…