Cates v. Woodson

delivered the Opinion of the Court..

In 1797, Joseph Crocket, then owning a military survey for one thousand acres of land, assigned all Iris inteutst therein to Tucker M. Woodson, to whom a patent was afterwards (1799) issued, for the entire tract, and who, after the emanation of the patent, and in the same year, sold and conveyed to G-holson Stapp, seven hundred and fifty acres, without designation of boundary otherwise than by the stipulation, that the quantity thus sold should lie within the patent bounds.

In 1816, the heirs of Gholson Stapp conveyed to Joshua Cates, all their interest…