Fearn v. Taylor

*363OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. B otee.

The appellants were complainants in the court below, and derive their title to the land which is the subject of controversy under an entry for 1000 acres, made in the name of Francis Eppes Harris, on the 28th of Decern-her 1782, which calls to lie—

“ On Hingston’s fork of Licking, above the mouth of Taylor’s creek; to begin at a sugar tree marked H. standing on the bank of the south side of said fork, to extend 200 poles north, and 200 poles south, from said t^ee, and then from the extremities of said line west-V;;mlly, to form a square figure as nearly as…