Webb v. Haley

This was an action of trespass quare clausum fregit in the Circuit Court of Madison county, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the defendants. The alleged trespass was. in cutting timber on a small tract of land claimed by both parties. The plaintiff claimed under a grant of the State, based upon a part of warrant 2,573, dated May 26, 1792, issued to John Walters, who assigned a part thereof to Thomas Watt, to whom the grant issued for fifty acres on the 12th December, 1829. The grant recites the survey of said land on the 28th June, 1827, and gives the boundaries thereof by courses and…