Watkins v. Kirchain

Error from Ancleraon. Tlio petition in tills case set out that tlio petitioner verily believed that the land upon which he liad settled and resided was vacant land, and that to claim the benefit of the pre-emption law, and have three hundred and twenty acres, including his improvement-, surveyed, lie made application to tiie defendant, surveyor for the comity of Anderson, in which district the land was situated, and made the oatii prescribed by the statute, but that the said surveyor, although particularly requested to make the survey, wholly neglected and refused to do so. Petitioner prayed…