Jackson v. Hughes

This was an action of ejectment for 500 acres of land in Clarksville, county of Clark. Palmer, the tenant in possession, and Hughes, his landlord, were admitted defendants upon the usual terms. The evidence in the cause was in substance as follows:—

I. On the. part of the plaintiff! 1st. The original book of surveys of Clark’s Grant, containing a map and description of 1,000 acres of land on the north-west bank of the Ohio river, surveyed'for the town of Clarksville agreeably to a law of Virginia. 2ndly. The record hook of the proceedings of the trustees of Clarksville, showing that at the…