Brown v. . Smathers

The appeal presents the two questions, whether the land in controversy, or any part of it, was subject to entry on 20 July, 1796, when the grant to George Lattimer was issued, and whether the disputed boundary of the land set apart to the Cherokee Indians under the act of 1783 (1 Potter, 435) extended southeast from Cold Mountain along the crest of the Blue Ridge to the southern boundary of the State, as adjudged, or southwest to the State line, as contended by the plaintiffs. The defendants say that the locus in quo is a part of the land allotted to the Indians, that it was not subject to…