Howard v. Todd

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a contest for land under adverse conflicting clairns; fmd the first question which naturally arises is, whether the *276entry under -which the appellant, who was complainant in The court below, asserts his claim to the land in controversy is valid or not. His entry is as follows, to wit:—

An ,entrt ly a call to adjoin a mi-htai-y^survey valid unless the survey was rptori- " ons in its iinii'y, , , quent locator will not be knC)wmedthe calls'of a survey merely because it is •rtten that re-conils t0 °[⅞ countrv.

*276“25⅛ December, 1782. John…