Hart v. Rogers

Hart having obtained a warrant from the proper officer of Madison county, under the acts of 1835 and' 1837, “to appropriate the vacant lands north and east of the Tennessee river, to the counties in which they lie,” caused it to be surveyed so as to cover a portion of the bed of the Kentucky river to low water mark on each side, in or between the counties of Fayette and Madison. Rogers afterwards, under a warrant regularly obtained in the county of Fayette, caused a survey tó be made covering the same land, and filed a caveat to prevent .the issuing of a patent on the survey of HarL The…