Carter and Stubblefield v. Ward

delivered the following opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs claimed under an entry, made in the county entry taker’s office, on the 4th of October 1803, as follows, to wit: “ John Carter enters 640 acres of land in Smith county, on the south side of Cumberland river, to begin at the mouth of the second branch above the Caney fork, to run up the river to Walton’s line, and with his line so as to include the vacant land between Lawrence’s 1000 acre tract and the river.”

On the 17th of November 1807, the laud was re-entered as required by act of assembly; it was surveyed on the 15th February 1810…