TAYLOR'S DEVISEE v. OWING


24 U.S. 226 (____)

11 Wheat. 226

TAYLOR'S Devisee against OWING and Others.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

THIS cause was argued by Mr. Talbot, for the appellant, and by Mr. Trimble, for the respondents.


Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant filed a bill in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky, praying a conveyance of a tract of land for which the defendants had obtained elder patents, and which the plaintiff claimed in virtue of a prior entry, which was made on the 6th of January, 1783, and is in these words: "James Taylor enters 12,000 acres of land on ten treasury warrants, No., &c.: to be...

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