Clark v. Smith
Supreme Court of the United States
ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Kentucky. William Clark, the father of the appellants, filed a bill in the Circuit .Court of the district of Kentucky, praying the Court to compel the defendant to release his pretended title to certain lands in the state of Kentucky, claimed by him under certain patents obtained from the state of Kentucky, more than thirty years after the registration of the survey of the ancestor of the complainants,…
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ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Kentucky. William Clark, the father of the appellants, filed a bill in the Circuit .Court of the district of Kentucky, praying the Court to compel the defendant to release his pretended title to certain lands in the state of Kentucky, claimed by him under certain patents obtained from the state of Kentucky, more than thirty years after the registration of the survey of the ancestor of the complainants, George Rogers Clark. The possession of the land had continued in the ancestor of the complainant, and in himself, up to…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice-Catron
delivered the' opinion of the Court.. By patent of the 15th September, 1795, there was granted to George Rogers Clark, by the commonwealth of Kentucky, 36,962 acres of land, beginning on the Ohio river, at. the mouth of the Tennessee; running south 16°, east 1280 poles, north 74°, west 3840-poles, north 16°, east 1800 poles, to the-bank of the Ohio, about three miles' below'Fort- Massac; thence running up the Ohio, with. its-, several meanders 4480 poles to the beginning.
The patent is .in. conformity to a survey of 7th June, 1784, returned' to the land office of Virginia;…
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