Lewis v. Marshall
Supreme Court of the United States
"‘Appeal from the Circuit Conrt of Kentucky. The appellants r¡j. claimed, in their hill, under the heirs of Charles Willing, deceased, a L 7 tract of land, in the state of Kentucky, by virtue of certain entries made in the lifetime of Charles Willing, with the proper surveyor, on the 27th of December 1783, and amended on the 11th and 12th of March 1784 ; and carried into grant by virtue of legal and valid surveys. This entry was averred to be good and valid.
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"‘Appeal from the Circuit Conrt of Kentucky. The appellants r¡j. claimed, in their hill, under the heirs of Charles Willing, deceased, a L 7 tract of land, in the state of Kentucky, by virtue of certain entries made in the lifetime of Charles Willing, with the proper surveyor, on the 27th of December 1783, and amended on the 11th and 12th of March 1784 ; and carried into grant by virtue of legal and valid surveys. This entry was averred to be good and valid. The patent was dated thirty years before the filing of the bill. The bill stated, that Thomas Barbour had, by and under a void entry,…
1Opinion of the Court
McLean, Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court. — This suit in chancery was brought into this court by an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of Kentucky. In their bill, the complainants charge, that Charles Willing, under whom they claim, in his lifetime, made an entry with the proper surveyor, on the 27th of December 1783, and amended the same on the 11th and 12th of March 1784, for 32,000 acres of land, on certain treasury-warrants, beginning 1280 poles south-west of the Lower Blue Licks, &c.; which entry *is alleged to be valid, and was carried into grant, p ^ after a legal…
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