Derrington v. Goodman

Judge Marshall

delivered, the Opinion of the Court.

This case arises under the acts of Assembly for the protection of the actual settlers in the land west of the Tennessee river, and more immediately under the second section of the act of February 20th, 1835, ‘to- reduce the price of the public lands west of the Tennessee river and for other purposes.’ Sess. Acts, 1834-5, p. 182. This act, though slightly variant in its terms from those which preceded it, in requiring that the person claiming the benefit of it should reside on one of the two quarter sections of land to which the preemptive…