Calk v. Reed

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Logak.

Calk, the appellant, asserts the superior right to certain lands deriicd under the following claim :

“January 18th, 1780 — William Calk, by Enoch: Smith, this day claimed a settlement and pre-emption to a tract of land in the district of Kentucky, on account of raising a crop of corn in the country in the year 1775, 1} ing on Small Mountain creek, waters of Licking creek, to include his improvement.”

On the 9th of February in the same year, entered with ¡the surveyor his .settlement right, conformably to the location in his certificate. And on the 6th of…