(DOWNLOAD) "Johnson v. Pannel's Heirs" by United States Supreme Court # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Johnson v. Pannel's Heirs
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 06, 1817
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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This case depends on the validity and construction of an entry made in the state of Kentucky by David Pannel, the ancestor of the appellees, in these words: 'David Pannel enters 2,000 acres on a treasury warrant on the Ohio, about twelve miles below the mouth of Licking, beginning at a hiccory and sugar tree on the river bank, running up the river from thence 1,060 poles, thence at right angles to the same and back for quantity.' The appellant having obtained an elder patent for the same land on a junior entry, the appellees brought a bill in the circuit court for the district of Kentucky, sitting in chancery, praying that the defendant, in that court, might be decreed to convey to them. The circuit court directed the entry of the complainant to be surveyed, beginning twelve miles below the mouth of Licking, on the bank of the Ohio, and running up that river 1,060 poles; which line was to form the base of a rectangular parallelogram, to include 2,000 acres of land. So much of this land as was within Pannell's patent, and also within Johnson's patent, the court decreed the defendant to convey to the plaintiffs. From this decree the defendant has appealed to this court. He contends that the decree is erroneous, because.
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