Skeen v. Pearce

mi . . . The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Duncan J.

The question has beeii stated with and. precision. It is a single point, “ whether any person without obtaining a vacating warrant or filing an application, can acquire a title to lands, by entering into; making a settlement, and procuring a survey, for which another person had previously obtained a warrant,- and had a survey made under the Act of Sd of April, 1792, but had not complied with the condition of actual settlement and residence, required by the Act.” This depends-on the condition of set•tlement annexed to the warrant, and…