Moore v. Smith

Petition for a 're-hearing.

Thomas Triplett, attorney for William Smith, respectfully solicits a rehearing in this cause, and a reconsideration of the claim of the complainant.

The entry under which he claims, ca]]s ]je on the branch of Rockcastle, that Boon’s trace goes down; beginning at the forks of Scaffold creek, running eastwardly 400 poles, thence at right angles, (if not restrained by uncultivable lands,) northwardly, so far as will include the quantity, excluding and binding on land unfit for-cultivation.

It is plain do the senses of the most ordinary man, that the lands intended to be…