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PORTERFIELD v. CLARK

43 U.S. 76 (____)

2 How. 76

WILLIAM KINNEY AND JAMES J. MECHIE, EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES OF ROBERT PORTERFIELD, DECEASED, v. MERIWETHER L. CLARK, WILLIAM P. CLARK, GEORGE R.H. CLARK, AND JEFFERSON R. CLARK, A MINOR BY THE AFORESAID GEORGE R.H. CLARK HIS GUARDIAN, HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF WILLIAM CLARK, DECEASED, AND ROBERT O., ANN C., GEORGE W., AND FRANCES JANE WOOLFOLK, HEIRS OF GEORGE WOOLFOLK, DECEASED, AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morehead and Chapman Johnson, for the appellants and complainants below.

Crittenden, for the defendants.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

For the principal facts, we refer to the statement of the reporter.

The first question in order presented by the bill depends on the validity of the complainant's title. But as that of the defendants is the elder, and Clark's entries not objected to on the ground that they are void for want of specialty; and the survey and patent founded on them being in conformity...

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