Glasgow's Lessee v. Smith and Blackwell
Tennessee Superior Court for Law and Equity
Ejectment. Common rule, not guilty, and issue. The lessor of the plaintiff, claimed under a grant from the state of North-Carolina, to Stockly Donelson, for fifty thousand acres of land, dated the first of January, 1795. and a deed from Donelson to the lessor of the plaintiff, dated 12th August, 1797. The defendants claimed under the same grant, and a deed made by Henry Brazeale, deputy sheriff of Knox county, to the defendant Smith, dated on the nineteenth of September,…
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Ejectment. Common rule, not guilty, and issue. The lessor of the plaintiff, claimed under a grant from the state of North-Carolina, to Stockly Donelson, for fifty thousand acres of land, dated the first of January, 1795. and a deed from Donelson to the lessor of the plaintiff, dated 12th August, 1797. The defendants claimed under the same grant, and a deed made by Henry Brazeale, deputy sheriff of Knox county, to the defendant Smith, dated on the nineteenth of September, 1799, for the same fifty thousand acres of land. The sheriff's deed was made under the authority, as it recited, of three…
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[S. C., infra, 233.]
Ejectment — Common rule, not guilty, and issue. — The lessor of the plaintiff claimed, under a grant from the State of North Carolina, to Stockley Donelson, for fifty thousand acres of land, dated the first of January, 1795, and a deed from Donelson to the lessor of the plaintiff, dated the twelfth of August, 1797.
The defendants claimed under the same grant, and a deed made by Henry Brazeale, deputy sheriff of Knox county, to the defendant Smith, dated on the nineteenth of September, 1799, for the same fifty thousand acres of land. The sheriff's deed was made under the…
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