Legal Opinion
Watts v. Lindsey's Heirs
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 18, 1822PublishedCited by 13 opinions
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Ohio.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Todd
This controversy arises from entries for lands in the Virginia military reservation, lying between the Scioto and Little Miami Rivers, in the district of Ohio.
The plaintiff in the court below, (Watts,) exhibited his bill in Chancery for tne purpose of compelling the respondents to surrender the legal title, acquired under an elder grant founded on a surveyor’s entry, than the one under which he derives his title.
The entry, set forth in the bill, and claimed by the plaintiff, is in the following words’: “ 7th August, 1787. Captain Ferdinand O’Neal enters 1000 acres, &c. on the waters of the…
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