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- Title: David Ross, Plaintiff in Error v. Charles M'Lung
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1832
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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This was an ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error in the court of the United States for the seventh circuit and district of East Tennessee. At the trial the plaintiff gave in evidence a patent from the state of North Carolina to Stockley Donelson, which covered the land in controversy. He then offered a deed of conveyance from the said Stockley Donelson and John Hackett to David Ross, the lessor of the plaintiff, for five thousand acres, being the same land contained in the aforesaid grant, which deed of conveyance is dated the 9th day of September 1793, and is witnessed by Walter King, Thomas N. Clark, and Meriwether Smith; and of which deed of conveyance a copy was annexed, and made a part of the bill of exceptions; and on the back of said deed is the following indorsement of probate and registration, viz.