Tennessee Supreme Court August 6, 1817 (Sappington v. Hill)

Per Curiam.

The question here arises upon a bill of exceptions filed on the trial of this ejectment.

The lessor of the plaintiff gave in evidence a grant from the State to himself, for the land in question, dated the 21st of January, 1812, beginning at a sugar tree, the north boundary of 5,000 acres granted to Martin Armstrong, by north 97, 60 poles west of the northeast corner, north 100, east