Egnew v. Cochrane
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM OBION. The hill was dismissed upon demurrer, by Chancellor Williams, at the February Term," 1858. The complainants appealed. the latter of whom said: It will be seen that complainant’s entries wrere made under the act of 1819, ch. 1, and subject to the limitations of the act of 1823, ch. 35; and that defendant’s entries were made in the intervening time, between the expiration of the extending act of 1850, ch. 138, and the enacting of the extending act of 1851, ch. 326,…
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FROM OBION. The hill was dismissed upon demurrer, by Chancellor Williams, at the February Term," 1858. The complainants appealed. the latter of whom said: It will be seen that complainant’s entries wrere made under the act of 1819, ch. 1, and subject to the limitations of the act of 1823, ch. 35; and that defendant’s entries were made in the intervening time, between the expiration of the extending act of 1850, ch. 138, and the enacting of the extending act of 1851, ch. 326, and, therefore, the defendant has a good title to said lands. Vaughn Brown v. Hatfield, 5 Yer., 236; Williamson v.…
1Opinion of the CourtWeight, J.
The complainants, George R. Egnew and Eleanor Maxwell are the heirs of George M. and Jesse W. Egnew, deceased.
On the 24th of May, 1843, they caused an entry to be made in their names, in the entry taker’s office of Obion county, for 166 acres of land, in that county, by virtue of a certificate warrant issued to them on the 27th of August, 1842.
On the 3d of June, 1843, they caused two other entries to be made in their names, in the same office, *326for lands lying in Obion county — one for 200, and the other for- 153|- acres.
These entries were also founded upon certificate warrants, issued to them…
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