Tennessee Supreme Court September 15, 1844 (Kennedy v. Wiggins)

Gkeen, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant Wiggins proved a preference right to the south-west quarter of the thirty-fourth section of the second fractional township south, in the second range east of the basis line in the Ocoee District; on the 5th of August, 1839, he made an entry of said quarter, and obtained a grant the 17th of September.