Blight's heirs v. Tobin

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion of the court.

Samuel Blight, a citizen of Pennsylvania!, held claims to a considerable quantity of. lands in this state, situated principally in the county of Hardin, but extending largely into the counties of Hart and Grayson; and he came to this state and took up a temporary residence in Hardin county, and boarded with his family at a public inn in Elizabethtown, for the avowed purpose of investigating his land claims and settling his business here.

On the 17th of March, 1820, he constituted Benjamin Tobin, a practising lawyer, resident of Hardin county, his…