Martin v. Nance

Ejectment for about 28 acres of land on the shore of Cumberland river, a few miles below Nashville. The plaintiff claims title by grant from the State in 1857, on entries made just before that time. He insists that the land entered by' him was vacant at the time. It embraces a bar, or strip of land between the top of the bank, and low water mark. The defendants insist that the State had parted with the land by *650grant to James Bosley in 178*7, and that the title is therefore outstanding. The river line of that grant is thus discribed ; “ thence north 270 poles, to a sycamore on the bank of…