Cotton v. Greenlee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Writ of Error. On the 4th day of July, 1809, the plaintiffs in error preferred a petition to the County Court of Rutherford, setting forth in substance, that their father, in his lifetime, made two entries, each for six hundred and forty acres of ■land, on the waters of Stone’s River, which was surveyed by John Buchan-non ; that the plats and. certificates of said surveys were forwarded to the secretary of North Carolina for the purpose of obtaining grants; but that in…
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Writ of Error. On the 4th day of July, 1809, the plaintiffs in error preferred a petition to the County Court of Rutherford, setting forth in substance, that their father, in his lifetime, made two entries, each for six hundred and forty acres of ■land, on the waters of Stone’s River, which was surveyed by John Buchan-non ; that the plats and. certificates of said surveys were forwarded to the secretary of North Carolina for the purpose of obtaining grants; but that in making out said grants by the secretary a mistake was made, so that the grants for each tract covered the same land ; that…
1Opinion of the Court
On the 4th day of July, 1809, the plaintiffs in error preferred a petition to the County Court of Rutherford, setting forth in substance, that their father, in his lifetime, made two entries, each for six hundred and forty acres of land, on the waters of Stone's River, which was surveyed by John Buchannon; that the plats and certificates of said surveys were forwarded to the secretary of North Carolina for the purpose of obtaining grants; but that in making out said grants by the secretary a mistake was made, so that the grants for each tract covered the same land; that the calls in one of…
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