Plummer v. Lane

Decided October 15, 1797

General Court of Maryland · decided 1797-10-15

Ejectment for pare of a tract of land called Brousley Hall, lying in Anne Arundel county. The plaintiff at the trial offered in evidence to the jury a grant in the year 1669, to Richard Wells, for the tract of land called Brousley Hall. He then proved by a witness that he knew Benjamin Lane upwards of 45 years ago; that he lived and died on Brousley Hall.

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Decided 1797-10-15

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¶1The court decided in this case, that the plaintiff, in deducing his title in ejectment, must shew a grant of the land for which the ejectment is brought, and a regular titiefrom the grantee; or seisin of the land, and a dying Seised of the person under whom the lessor derives his title, and a regular title from the person dying seised; or twenty years uninterrupted and exclusive possession of the land.

¶2The court also determined that a person, whose land was sold under a fieri facias, could not be received as a witness to impeach Ins title to the land.

¶3Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.