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

GENERAL COURT,
    OCTOBER TERM, 1797.
    Plummer et al. Lessee, vs. Lane et al.
    
    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. He then produced the will of Benjamin Lane, dated the 6ib of May, 1772, devising distinct parts of the said tract of land to his sons Gabriel, Benjamin, and Thomas Lane. That .Benjamin lived in the house where his father lived. That the sons held and occupied distinct parts of the said laud; and it was understood (by a witness sworn) that there was a division made between the sons under the will of their said father.
    
      ■ That at March terra, 1787, William Weems obtained a judgment in Anne Arundel county court against /Jenjamin Lane, on bond; that a fieri facias issued on the said judgment on the 15th of November, 1787, and the sheriff, David Stewart, in March 1788, returned the said fieri facias to court, “made as per schedule,” &c. That part of the tract of land called Brousley Hall was included in the said schedule, and was sold by the said sheriff to John Plummer tor 150Í. That the said Steuart, the sheriff, in consideration of 1 SOL conveyed 95|. acres, part of the said tract of land, to the said Plummer, on the 1st of September, 1788. That, John Plummer died after-wards, and left five children, the lessors of the plaintiff.
    The 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.
    The 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.
    Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.
    Key, for the plaintiff.
    
      Shaaff, for the defendant.