This was an ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error in the court of the United States for the seventh circuit and district of East Tennessee.
At the trial the plaintiff gave in evidence a patent from the state of North Carolina to Stockley Donelson, which covered the land in controversy. He then offered a deed of conveyance from the said Stockley Donelson...
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