Blount v. Ramsey

Blount commenced this caveat to prevent the issuance of a grant to the defendant Ramsey, upon the following entry: —

"No. 1608, Robert Kirkpatrick enters two thousand acres in Green County, on the south side of the land granted to the continental line of North Carolina, including the first mile tree on the west line, running west and south for complement, adjoining a large knob. April 2, 1784."

The entry under which Blount claimed was special; but it was of a younger date than that made in the name of Kirkpatrick.

A jury being empanelled to try such facts as were not agreed upon by the parties,…