Speed v. Patton's heirs

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Logan

— This is a suit under adverse claims to land, in which the ap-pellees, who were complainants below, derive title under the settlement and pre-emption of Peter Philips* which was granted on the 15<h day of February 1780, oh account of raising a crop of corn in the country in the year 1775.

The location of the settlement with the commissioners is as follows, to wit : “ Lying on the south side of the town fork of Salt river, about five or six miles from Bullitt’s lick, on the first creek below the Ink, and near the fork of the said creek, to include a tree…