Bodley v. Taylor
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the district court of the United States, for the district of Kentucky, in a suit in chancery. Thomas Bodley, James Hughes, Robert Poague and Robert Campbell, citizens of Kentucky, brought their bill in chancery against John Taylor, a citizen of Virginia, in the state court for the district of Washington, from whence it was afterwards, by consent, removed into the federal court for the district of. Kentucky.
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ERROR to the district court of the United States, for the district of Kentucky, in a suit in chancery. Thomas Bodley, James Hughes, Robert Poague and Robert Campbell, citizens of Kentucky, brought their bill in chancery against John Taylor, a citizen of Virginia, in the state court for the district of Washington, from whence it was afterwards, by consent, removed into the federal court for the district of. Kentucky. The bill states that on the 17th of October, 1783, Henry Crutcher and John Tibbs made the following entry with, the county surveyor, viz. “ Henry Crutcher and John i ibbs enter,?…
1Opinion of the Court
inarch 14th, 1809.
Marshall, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the court as follows:
This js an appeal from a decree of the court for the district of Kentucky, by which Taylor was directed to convey, to Bodley and others a part of a tract of land to which he held an elder patent,. but to-which Bodley and others claim the better right under a junior patent. The judge of the district court having directed such part of the land held by Taylor to be conveyed to Bodley and others, as appeared by certain rules, which he has applied to the case, to be within their claim, and not within Taylor’s location,…
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