Spilman v. Thomasson's Lessee

John Thomasson, the defendant in error, who was the plaintiff below, claimed title to the land in dispute upder a grant. It appeared that William H. Cook entered the land, April 7,1827. He assigned his certificate of entry to James Barnett, November 14, 1834. Barnett assigned it to Isaac Cook, July 9 1839. Cook assigned it to Eliza Cook, his daughter, December 7, 1840; but not before Spilman, plaintiff in error and defendant in the Court below, had recovered against him several judgments before a Justice of the Peace, in October 1840, upon which levies were made in April 1841. The papers…