Young v. Wilson

Tiie Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a contest for land under adverse claims. The appellant, who was complainant in the circuit court, asserts his equity in virtue of two entries upon treasury warrants, made in the name of Simon Summers.

The first of these entries is for 420 acres, and was made the 10th of September, 1783, on Cox’s creek, to join Isaac Cox on the south, “Beginning at two sugar trees and black “oak corner, to Osburn Spriggs in Cox’s line, and with said “line S, §0 E, to the corner, then with Gabriel Cox’s line “S 20 W, to the corner, then with his line…