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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