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LEWIS ET AL. v. MARSHALL ET AL.

30 U.S. 470 (____)

5 Pet. 470

JOSIAH LEWIS, FRANCES LEWIS, AND WILLIAM RAWLE, EXECUTORS AND EXECUTRIX OF WILLIAM LEWIS, DECEASED, AND THE SAID JOSIAH LEWIS, MARGARET AND LOUISA AGAID AND LEWIS H. CONOVER, HEIRS, &C. OF SAID LEWIS, AND RICHARD WILLING, ELIZA M. WILLING, THOS. WILLING, AND GEO. C. WILLING, HEIRS, &C. OF CHARLES WILLING, DECEASED, APPELLANTS vs. HUMPHREY MARSHALL, JACOB FEEBECK, HENRY RICHEY, JOHN FOWLER AND OTHERS, APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Wickliffe, for the appellants; and by Mr Clarke, for the appellees.

Mr. Justice M'LEAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit in chancery was brought into this court by an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of Kentucky.

In their bill the complainants charge, that Charles Willing, under whom they claim, in his life time, made an entry with the proper surveyor, and on the 27th December 1783, and amended the same on the 11th and 12th of March 1784, for 32,000 acres of...

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