King v. Watkins
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Virginia
Action of ejectment to recover the Virginia portion of a grant of 500,000 acres lying in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. See King v. Campbell (C. C.) 85 Fed. 814. The subjoined diagrams will aid an understanding of the opinion. Mg. 1 is a plat of the Robert Morris 500,000-acre tract, returned by surveyor Taylor, with his certificate of survey.
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Action of ejectment to recover the Virginia portion of a grant of 500,000 acres lying in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. See King v. Campbell (C. C.) 85 Fed. 814. The subjoined diagrams will aid an understanding of the opinion. Mg. 1 is a plat of the Robert Morris 500,000-acre tract, returned by surveyor Taylor, with his certificate of survey. Fig. 2 represents the locality of the grant according to actual survey, the plaintiff contending for the location shown by the exterior lines, A, P, H, I, J, M, A, and the defendants contending for the location shown by the lines included…
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL, District Judge.
In this action the plaintiff asserts title to a tract of 660,000 acres of land lying in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, under a grant of the commonwealth of Virginia to Robert Morris dated June 23, 1795. The defendants, J. H. Watkins and others, claim to hold certain lands in Buchanan county, Va., under patents from the commonwealth junior to the grant of the . plaintiff. They further claim that the lands which they hold under their grants are not within the boundaries of the lands to which the plaintiff claims title. The question of boundary,…
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