White's Lessee v. Hembree

[S. C., 2 Tenn. 202.]

This was an ejectment in the Circuit Court of Roane, and appeal to this court.

It appeared on the trial that the plaintiff claimed under a grant to William Reed for 400 acres of land; from this grant, which was offered in evidence, it appeared that the land was surveyed by Abraham Swaggerty, on the 20th of June. 1790. The land is described therein as lying in the county of Hawkins, on the north-west side of Emmery's River, in Powel's Valley, including the Cumberland trace, and the west branches of the first creek that falls into Tennessee River below the mouth of Clinch…