WILLIAMS, LESSEE, v. HENDERSON, 1 Tenn. 264 (1808)


WILLIAMS, LESSEE, v. HENDERSON.

Superior Court for Law and Equity, Mero District.
May 1808.

A grant obtain by a defendant in ejectment after the institution of the suit, may be read in evidence; and, so, of a deed of conveyance. [Acc. Garter’s Lessee v. Parrot, ante, 237, and cases there cited.]

Page 265

Per POWELL and HUMPHREYS, JJ. (absente, OVERTON, J.). —

A grant obtained by a defendant in ejectment, since the institution of the suit, may be read in evidence in bar of the plaintiff’s claim, and so of a deed of conveyance.[1]

[1] 3 Caines, 69.