Case Name: TILLERY'S LESSEE, vs. SIMMONS
Court: Tennessee Superior Court of Law and Equity
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1806-09
Citations: 1 Overt. 209
Docket Number: 
Parties: TILLERY’S LESSEE, vs. SIMMONS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 209–209

Head Matter:
TILLERY’S LESSEE, vs. SIMMONS.
A purchaser at Sheriff’s sale is not bound to produce the original Grant.

Opinion:
The plaintiff purchased under an execution, and had a sheriffs deed.
Williams for th defendant insisted that the plaintiff ought to produce the original grant, or to make affidavit as is usual to let in secondary evidence. But by the court. It is not necessary--in presumption of law the plaintiff never had the grant.