Brown v. Hardin
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Phillips Circuit Couit in Chancery. Hon. George W. Beazley, Circuit Judge. “ Section ” is a tract of land described by one number; and under the devise to the defendants of one section of land, they were required to select by sectional lines, and could not cross them to make up the quantity. See Gavin’s case, Ins. ¿p Opns. 180; Noah Wall’s case, ib.pt. 2,207; 1 Opns 'Atty. Geni. ü.
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Appeal from Phillips Circuit Couit in Chancery. Hon. George W. Beazley, Circuit Judge. “ Section ” is a tract of land described by one number; and under the devise to the defendants of one section of land, they were required to select by sectional lines, and could not cross them to make up the quantity. See Gavin’s case, Ins. ¿p Opns. 180; Noah Wall’s case, ib.pt. 2,207; 1 Opns 'Atty. Geni. ü. S. 862; Opns Sp Inst.'pt. 2, 434. The term section of land as applied to the congressional divisions of townships, means a mile square of land, or the equivalent of a mile square of land, that is: six…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fairchild
William McNeill of Davidson county, Tennessee, by his last will, divided between his two children, all his property except one section of land, on the Mississippi river, which he gave to the defendants, William Hardin and Benjamin Hardin, to be selected by them out of any of his lands in this state.
The will was made and took effect by the death of the testator, in April, 1844, and in 1849 the Hardins proceeded to make their selection of the section of land devised to them, by appropriating to themselves of the testator’s lands in Phillips county, the N. W. frl. quarter, the S. W. frl. quarter…
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