Evans's Heirs v. Manson's Executors

OPINION' of the Court, by

Judge Waixace.—

This is a contest for land held under adversé titles. Manson’s executors, the appellees, were complainants in the court below, and their claim will be first investigated. It depends on the following entry with the surveyor for the county of Kentucky : “ October 31, 1780, Peter Manson enters 1089 acres, upon a treasury warrant?? on Hickman’s creek, adjoining Abraham Hite on the west, and the whole length of his line, and to run off at right angles to the same westwardlv for quantity, including the quantity in four lines.” Two claims ra the name of…