Rollins v. Clark

This appeal brings up for revision a judgment in ejectment, obtained, by William Clark against James Rollins and John Wilson, for eviction from a tract of land west of the Tennessee river, in this State, and which was conveyed to the said William in the year 1803, by General George Rogers Clark, to whom thirty six thousand nine hundred and sixty two acres, lying on the rivers Ohio and Tennessee,had been granted, by this Commonwealth, in the year 1795, in virtue of a certificate of survey, made June the 7th, 1784, on an entry made May the 18th, 1780, on treasury warrants issued by Virginia.

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