Case ID: tenn_6/html/0721-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CLARKESVILLE,
    JULY TERM, 1816.
    Thompson v. Garrison.
    
      \_Land Law. — Conflict of Entries.']
    
   Per Curiam.

This verdict does not in precise terms state where Hill’s entry is; but it may be fairly imputed from what is stated that the northeast corner thereof is due north from the point where Garrison’s survey began. And then it follows that Garrison’s entry and survey are both for the same land, and that the bounds thereof include the greater part of the lands of Thompson, the caveator. And we think we are at ■ liberty to make this implication.

Secondly, this northeast corner is found to have been notoriously called Christmas’s corner, before Thompson’s entiles were made, though it was not so called when Garrison’s entry was made. That called for Christmas’s northeast corner, and a point 80 poles south thereof for a beginning.

"We are of opinion that Garrison’s entry was therefore rendered special before that of Thompson’s was made, and of course was sufficiently special when Thompson’s was made. He cannot say that he was misled by the entry of Garrison, and its uncertainty. It is good in law against Thompson’s entry.

See Simm v. Wilson, Cooke, 140; Baird v. Trimble, Cooke, 282; Winchester v. Gleaves, 3 Hay. 213; Talbot v. McGavock, 1 Yer. 262; King’s Digest, 7985.