Weathers v. Helm

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from the court below, compelling the appellants to surrender their elder title, derived under an adverse claim, to the appellee, who asserted a superior equity, under the following entry:

"February 3, 1783, Joseph Helm enters 1500 acres in “part of a military warranty No. 1320, on the waters “Clear Creek, adjoining Allen’s survey on the west, run“ning north with his line; thence west; thence south to *146“Boone’s pre-emption; thence with Helm’s line north? “thence east to the beginning.”

In 1774 there was surveyed for James Allen,…