Potorf v. Fishback

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.*

This is a contest under adverse interfering land claims.

By a decree of the circuit court, the appellee’s entry was sustained, and the appellants compelled to surrender their title, derived through the elder grant emanating under an entry also of elder date to that under which the appellees claim.

The appellee’s entry is as follows, viz:

"April 15, 1789—Isaac Hite enters 1163 3/4 acres of land, “on the waters of Beargrass, beginning at a poplar, ash and “red-oak, the south east corner of Abraham Hite’s settle-“ment, assignee of Ben. and Hannah…