Download or read book Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, 1841, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Theodorick Bland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, 1841, Vol. 3 The bill' further states, that the plaintiffs employed a certain Jared Ball to go to Georgia, to inquire as to the title and quality of the lands, who Obtained information that the lands described in the plot to Blanton and Lewis, and that described in the plot to Gardner and Gilbert, in virtue of certain warrants issued out of the land court of Washington county, were not so granted; but were fraudulently Obtained upon forged warrants, as the plaintiffs presume, from a certificate of the clerk, that no such warrants had ever been issued from the said court; and that such parts of the said lands as were within Franklin county had been surveyed five or six years prior to the grants under which Smyth and Lynch claimed; and the whole were held and owned by divers citizens under lawful titles. That seventy thousand acres of the land in the said plot surveyed for Gilbert, was within the Indian territory; and being beyond the line between the whites and Indians, no valid grant of it could be made by Georgia, without the assent Of the United States, which had not been Obtained; and that the residue thereof, lying within Franklin county, had been surveyed and granted to divers citizens many years before the title under which Smyth and Lynch claimed. That the said Smyth and Lynch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.