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

GENERAL COURT,
    MAY TERM, 1797.
    Joseph Chapline’s Lessee against George Adam Keedy.
    THIS was an ejectment for a tract of land called Good Hope, lying in Washington county. Defence was taken on plots.
    At the trial of the cause the defendant produced, and offered to swear to the jury, a witness to prove and establish the outlines of the tract of land called The Resurvey on Hills, Dales and Vineyard, the true location of which was in issue before the jury.
    The plaintiff objected to the witness being sworn in the cause, alleging he was interested, and produced a witness to prove that the witness offered by the defendant, held, occupied and claimed land dependent upon the outlines of the said tract called The Resurvey on Hills, Dales and Vineyard, and offered to prove that by the location of the said land by the defendant, on the plots in the cause, the witness would get more land and of better quality than by the plaintiff’s location thereof.
   The Cpurt

were of opinion that Such evidence should not be received, to prove that the witness was interested in the location of The Resurvey on Hills, Dales and Vineyard, without having the land in. which the plaintiff al« leged the witness was interested located on the plots in this cause, and refused to let the witness be sworn aceordingly.

^ A juror was withdrawn by consent, for the purpose of amending the plots, and the cause was continued.