Kerr's Lessee v. Porter
Tennessee Superior Court for Law and Equity
The plaintiff, Samuel Kerr, claimed under a grant to Joseph Kerr, for 640 acres, surveyed, March the 8th, 1807, and dated May the 19th, 1789, which was conveyed to the lessor of the plaintiff, on the 8th of February, 1791. The entry on which the grant was founded, was made the 30th of December, 1784; it calls to lie “on the north side of Cumberland river, on the dividing ridge between the waters of White’s creek and Buckanon’s spring branch, bounded on said Buckanon’s line…
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The plaintiff, Samuel Kerr, claimed under a grant to Joseph Kerr, for 640 acres, surveyed, March the 8th, 1807, and dated May the 19th, 1789, which was conveyed to the lessor of the plaintiff, on the 8th of February, 1791. The entry on which the grant was founded, was made the 30th of December, 1784; it calls to lie “on the north side of Cumberland river, on the dividing ridge between the waters of White’s creek and Buckanon’s spring branch, bounded on said Buckanon’s line to the west, and Swanson’s line to the north: beginning at said Buckanon’s south west corner, running along said…
1Opinion of the Court
[S. C., ante, 15.]
The plaintiff, Samuel Kerr, claimed under a grant to Joseph Kerr, for 640 acres, surveyed March the 8th, 1787, and dated May the 19th, 1789, which was conveyed to the lessor of the plaintiff, on the 8th of February, 1791. The entry on which the grant was founded was made the 30th of December, 1784; it calls to lie "on the north side of Cumberland River, on the dividing ridge between the waters of White's Creek and Buckanon's spring branch, bounded on said Buckanon's line to the west, and Swanson's line to the north: beginning at said Buckanon's south-west corner, running…
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