Knox v. Thompson

Opinion of the Court.

Patrick Doran, being the owner of a tract of land in Mercer county, estimated to contain 683 acres, sold 50 acres thereof to George Caldwell, and on the 3d of March 1794, executed to Caldwell a bond for a conveyance. This land was afterwards sold by Caldwell to Knox, and in August 1794, a surveyor was called, and in company with Doran and Knox, he laid off, by metes and bounds, out of Doran’s tract, 53 acres and 11 poles, for Knox, 50 acres thereof being *351the land sold by Doran to Caldwell, and the residue being at that time purchased by Knox from Doran. At the time of…