Yocum v. Renfroe's Heirs

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a controversy for land, under conflicting claims. The appellants, who were complainants in the circuit court, derive title under the last of the two following entries, to wit:—

“December the 4th, 1783—Matthew Walton and Antho"ny Hunly enter 12,000 acres, part of a treasury warrant, "beginning on the fork of Chaplain’s fork, and the beech "fork, to run up the beech fork to the mouth of the first "large creek, which is called the main north fork of the “beech fork, (the creek that the trace goes five or six miles “up, leading from Cox’s…