Tennessee Supreme Court September 15, 1844 (Davis v. Williams)

GeeeN, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

The'only question in this case is, whether a party who may have availed himself of an occupant preference in the Ocoee district under the act of l837, is authorized by the act of 1839, if he were in possession of other vacant land at the passage of said act, to have a preference or priority of entry of such land so possessed.