Morgan's Heirs v. Parker

The plaintiffs in error, claiming the superior eauity, ... , under a junior grant, sued the delendant tor a retín-quishment of his legal title, derived from the elder pa-u o’ I tent.

The defendant has not established his entry. That on which the plaintiffs rely is in itself sufficiently special, and depends for its validity on a previous entry, for forty thousand acres, in the names of Fishback and Morgan, in the following words :—

“ November 25th, 1783.

Jacob Fishback and Charles Morgan, as tenants in common, enter 40,000 acres of land on a treasury warrant &c beginning at the head of the main…