Cravens v. Brooke

Hemphill, Ch. J.

The appellee, Henry L. Brooke, under some arrangement with one Fink, the administrator of a deceased owner of the Haly league survey in Shelby county, entered upon, settled and improved, in the year 1849, a portion of said survey. The certificate of Haly was never recommended for patent. Several years after the survey for Haly, the head-rights of others were located on the land, but no surveys were made on these last locations, and on the 11th February, 1853, the land became vacant by operation of the Act of the 10th February, 1852. On the 24th March, 1853, one of the…