MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action at law, in ejectment, brought in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of South Carolina, in June, 1873, by Doctor William Richardson Davie and others against James B. Heyward, the younger, and others, to recover a plantation situated in Chester district, in South Carolina, on the Catawba River, and known as Landsford.
Both the plaintiffs and the defendants...
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