Supreme Court of the United States April 16, 1860 (Emma B. C. Thompson v. Richard Roe)

Mr. Justice GRIER

delivered the opinion of the court.

The lessors of the plaintiffs below claim to recover a lot of ground in the city of Washington,'the title to which was admitted to have been in their ancestor in 1835. In that year it was sold for taxes by the corporate authorities. The plaintiffs in error claim through mesne conveyances of the tax title.