Johnson v. Marshall

OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyie.

This is a contest for land under adverse interfering claims. The appellee, who was defendant in the court below, has the elder entry and patent, on both of which he re-líes. As, however, the appellants were complainants, it is proper first to inquire into the validity of the entry under which they derive title. It was for 915 acres, and calls for « beginning at Thomas Cameal’s west cor» ner of his 1600 acre survey on the Ohio waters, below the mouth of Licking, at a sugar tree and hickory : thence S. 45 W. 990 poles to an elm and walnut,'near a drain,…