Taylor's Lessee v. Myers

This case comes on upon two questions, certified by the Circuit Court for the District of Ohio, in which the Judges of that Court were divided in opinion. The following is stated as the case on which the question arose:

“ The plaintiff’s claim is founded on an entry dated the 17th of February, 1817,-surveyed the 19th of February, 1817, and on a patent founded thereon, dated the 18th of July, 1818, covering the premises in.question.

“ The defendant showed that the plaintiff, on the 27th of February, 1797, made an entry on the premises in question on another warrant, surveyed the same the 15th of…