Liggett v. Marshall

TODD, Circuit Justice.

The defendants, having the legal title, claim that they shall not be divested of it, unless the complainants can show a superior equitable title, derived agreeable to the provisions and directions of the land laws. This' principle has been long well and correctly settled as it is ■claimed.

The complainants claim and found their equity on the following certificate and entries:

“December 27th, 1779. Bartlett Searcy this day claimed a settlement and pre-emption to a tract of land in the district of Kentucky, lying on the north side of the Kentucky river, on a small branch…