White v. Lewis

Judge Rowan

delivered the opinion of the court.

Lewis exhibited his bill in the court below, wherein he asserted his claim to 18,000 acres of land entered, surveyed and patented in the name of Jacob Larue, and by the said Larue conveyed to him. He alledged that the defendants held under patents of elder date than his, but that the entries upon which their patents emanated, were vague and void, and that his entry was special and valid. He exhibited his own and the entries of defendants, and alledged that they interfered with his claim, and prayed a decree for a conveyance to the extent of the…