HOLLINGSWORTH v. BARBOUR AND OTHERS


29 U.S. 466 (____)

4 Pet. 466

HENRY HOLLINGSWORTH, HEIR OF LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH, APPELLANT vs. PHILIP BARBOUR AND OTHERS, APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr Sheffey for the appellants, and by Mr Wickliffe for the appellees.


Mr Justice BALDWIN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was a bill, filed on the equity side of the court, by the appellants, setting forth, that on the 21st of February 1784, a certain John Abel Hamlin entered, with the proper surveyor for the district of Kentucky, forty-five thousand acres of land, lying in the county of Washington; by virtue of sundry treasury warrants, issued by the state of Virginia. That a survey...

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