Combs v. Griffiths

Opinion of the -Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The decisive question in this case is tbe proper location of -a patent for tliree hundred acres of land in Perry county issued to John Gillnm on July 1,1850, upon a survey made August 17, 1819. There was issued to Phillip W. Hall -on July 1,1851, a patent for two thousand acres of land, the survey of which was dated December 13,1850. The Hall patent to some extent laps on the prior -one issued to Gillum, and being junior to the latter -one it is void to the extent of the lap. The appellant an-d plaintiff below, Elzira Combs, is the owner by…