Shields v. Dodd

*25Opinion of the Court,

by Judge Mills.

THE complainant below has filed his bill to obtain the land in controversy, by virtue of the following certificate, and a patent issued thereon:

the entry not conformabie to it. Treasury war rants cannot bo laid on notwithsianding the tificate has' cdTy mi stepresentation & fraud, & may !’,e-

c ‘ Mercer .County, Set. October County Court, 1804

“William Shields came into court and claimed a right to two hundred acres of vacant land, in the said county, on the Kentucky river, above Armstrong’s ferry, adj°™nS the lands of John Shields, on his upper side,and Brown…