Legal Opinion
Green v. Davis
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 28, 1907No. 1,663Published
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARDS, Circuit Judge.
This was an action in ejectment to recover from George Green and numerous other defendants certain lands embraced within the exterior boundaries of a patent issued by the state of Kentucky, September 25, 1845, on a survey dated March 3, 1845, to Ledford, Skidmore & Smith, which called for 86,000 acres. This land was situated in the southeastern part of Kentucky. Its boundaries were defined by this court in the case of Bramblett v. Davis, 141 Fed. 776, 72 C. C. A. 204. They include a parallelogram about 25 or 26 miles long and 5 or 6 miles wide. The present suit was…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Maxwell Land Grant Co. v. DawsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Glacier Mountain Silver Mining Co. v. WillisSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Farmer v. SamuelCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1823
- Bramblet v. DavisCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1905