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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TILLERY’S LESSEE vs. WILSON.
    The land had been sold at sheriff’s sale under a judgment against the defendant and the lessor of the plaintiff became the purchaser. The judgment and execution were shewn, and among other title papers in order to shew a title in Wilson, a deed from Nicholson and co. by John M. Carrick attorney is fact.
    Upon producing the power pf attorney, which was dated the 9th of March, 1797, and executed in the presence of Mathew Clarkson Mayor or of Philadelphia, there was no seal of office, nor any other authentication, attached to it.
    In ejectment, by the purchaser of land sold under execution against the debtor, the plaintiff in shewing his title need go no further back than the sheriff's deed to him
    Whiteside, for the plaintiff,
    insisted that as a deed from the defendant Wilson to one Miller, recited this power of attorney, it ought to be taken as true against Wilson, under whom the plaintiff claimed,  thoughit is objected that the plaintiff must recover by the strength of his own title,and not by the weakness of his adversaries. This principle cannot obtain here. It has been decided, that in ejectment the purchaser at a sheriffs sale against the person as whose property the land was sold, is not under the necessity of going further back in deraigning his title than the sheriff's deed to him. The presumption is that the land has been granted, and of this opinion was Campbell, j. and Emmerson, j.  Overton, j. dubitatur but was inclined to think there was the same necessity for shewing title in this case on the part of the plaintiff as in any other.
    
      
       See 2 Bay 141. 3 Binn. 179.
    
    
      
       Vide 3 Caine’s 188.
    
   Verdict for the plaintiff,