Perkins v. Ramsey

This is an appeal from the decree of the seventh Circuit Court in the district of Kentucky, and is a controversy between conflicting claims to land originating under the land law of Virginia.

The respondents relying on their elder legal titles, and denying the validity of the entries, under whicti the appellants derive their titles, it is necessary to examine those entries only.

The entry under which the appellants derive title is in the following words, as it stands amended, viz, 44 William Perkins and William Hoy enter 6,714 acres of land on treasury warrant No. 10,692, to join Lawrence…