Bruce v. Duke

THIS is a contest about land under adverse confiictingclaims.

Bruce and Barbour, &c. were complainants in the court below, asserting the superior equity under an entry made in the name of Richard Barbour and Abraham Maury, the 21st day of November, 1783, for ten thousand acres of land, and asking the aid of the court to compel Duke &c. to surrender ihe legal title, derived under an entry for fifteen thousand acres, made in the name of John Marshall, the fifteenth of June, *245If80, and which entry had been carried into grant before the entry under which Bruce &c. claim.

Under power of attorney…