Downing's heirs v. Pigman's heirs

Judge Underwood,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Two questions only need be considered. 1st. Is the entry under which the plaintiffs in error claim the land valid?

2nd. Are the defendants protected by twenty years adverse possession, the plaintiffs being minors at the time their title accrued by descent?

These are the words of the entry, “17 May, 1780, Thomas Carland enters four hundred acres upon a treasury warrant,' on the head of the south fork of clear creek, including a cabin built at a spring by Daniel Lyon, adjoining an old survey on the south.”

We cannot regard the call to adjoin “an…