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CLARK ET AL. v. SMITH

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38 U.S. 195 (1839)

13 Pet. 195

10 L.Ed. 123

MERIWETHER L. CLARK, EXECUTOR, AND WILLIAM P. CLARK, GEORGE R.H. CLARK, AND JEFFERSON KENNERLY CLARK, AN INFANT UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS, BY HIS GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND NEXT FRIEND, THE SAID GEORGE R.H. CLARK, HEIRS AT LAW OF WILLIAM CLARK DECEASED, APPELLANTS, vs. ANDREW SMITH, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 28, 1839.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A printed argument was submitted to the Court by Mr. Crittenden for the appellants. No counsel appeared for the defendant.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the Court.

By patent of the 15th September, 1795, there was granted to George Rogers Clark, by the commonwealth of Kentucky, 36,962 acres of land, beginning on the Ohio river, at the mouth of the Tennessee; running south 16°, east 1280 poles, north 74°, west 3840 poles, north 16°, east 1800 poles, to the bank of the Ohio, about three miles below Fort Massac; thence...

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