WEBB ET AL. v. DEN


58 U.S. 576 (1854)

17 How. 576

GRAY P. WEBB AND OTHERS, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. JOHN DEN, LESSEE OF POLLY WEATHERHEAD.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Gillet, for the plaintiffs in error; no counsel appearing for the defendant.


Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

On the trial of this case, the plaintiff below having shown that the lessor of plaintiff was one of the children of Anthony Bledsoe, — also the will of Anthony Bledsoe, and a grant of five thousand acres of land, by the State of North Carolina, to Nicholas Lang — offered in evidence a copy of a paper writing purporting to be a deed from John J. Lang, Basset Stith, and Mary his wife, and others, devisees...

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