Tyrrell v. . Logan

The petitioners set forth that on 5 June, 1817, they entered a tract of land in Rutherford County, and on 18 November, 1818, obtained a grant for the same; but that one David Miller, late entry taker of Rutherford, made an entry in his own office for the land, or a part thereof, without having made any entry before a justice of the peace for the county, and without any justice of the peace making a return to the next court of pleas and quarter sessions of such entry; and that there was no entry, either on the record of the county court or on the entry taker's books, that Miller's entry ever…