Jackson v. Johnson's heirs

*58OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. EdwArds.-⅛

The appellees exhibited their bill in chancery to recover the legal title to land, the equitable title to which they alleged was vested in them by the following entry: “ 12th December, 1782 — Benjamin Johnson enters 10,000 acres, o» ten treasury warrants, &c. lying between Hickman and Jessamine creeks, beginning where Douglass’s lower line crosses Hickman, thence with said line to Jessamine, thence to extend down Jessamine and Hickman, so far as shall be sufficient to include the quantity, so as to exclude the following entries, &c. amounting in all to…