Meriwether v. Philips

*182Opinion op the Court,

by Ch. J. Boyle.

TIS is a controversy for land. The appellees, who were defendants in the circuit court, are in possession under elder grants, and the appellants, who were complainants in that court, assert their superior equity under an entry made in the name of William Meriwether; and the first question which naturally presents itself, is, whether this entry is valid or not? The entry is as follows:

“January 23d, 1783. William Meriwether enters 10,000 acres, on two treasury warrants, numbers, 11,591 and 11,592, on liardin’s creek, beginning about three miles above…