McDowell v. Peyton

deliveréd the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal, from a decree pronounced in thé Court of the United States for the Seventh Circuit and District of Kentucky, dismissing a bill brought by the plaintiff, to obtain a conveyance for a tract of land in possession of the defendant under an elder grant, to which the plaintiff claims to have the superior equitable title. The defendant rests on his patent; and as the entry under which the plaintiff claims was made before that patent issued, the cause depends essentially on the validity of the . entry. It is in these words:

Dec. 24th, 1782. — “John…