Wallen v. Campbell

delivered the following opinion of the court.

This was an action of ejectment brought by the defendant Campbell, against the plaintiff Wallen in the county of Claiborne.

On the trial, the defendant offered in evidence, a grant dated in August 1787 to John Jones.

The plaintiff deduced his title under two grants founded on two entries, one in the following words, “ Washington November 22nd 1779, Berryman Wallen enters 640 acres of land in Powels valley, beginning at a beech marked W. about one and a half miles below Doctor Walker’s camp, before he went through the mountain, running up and down the…