Bohannon v. Pace & Rowland

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Bohannon filed his bill against Pace and Rowland, asserting his preemptive right to a quarter section of land on the west of the Tennessee river, claiming under a purchase from Shearing, who was a settler on the quarter at and anterior to the passage of the act of the 20th of February, 1'835, (Sess. Acts of 1834, 182.)

The defendants answer,. controverting his right, and relying upon the statute of frauds and perjuries; and his bill was dismissed.

The only question involved in the case, that has not been settled in the cases of Johnson vs. Gresham,…