Harrison v. Woodruff

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Isaac Harrison filed his bill against Woodruff, asserting a r]ght of preemption to a quarter section of land in the land district west of the Tennessee river, by virtue of a settlement thereon, prior to and at the passage of the act of the 14th of January, 1831 — alleging that one. Baker Woodruff had entered the same within the nine months during which time the preemption privilege was secured to him.

The facts in this case are not essentially varient— except in two particulars — from the facts in the case of Johnson vs. Gresham, decided at the…