Mitchell v. Owings

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion.*

This was a bill filed by the appellees, against the appellant and others, to obtain a correction of an irregularity in the division of a tract of land.

They allege in suhstanee, that Mitchell and Parks jointly purchased of Reed 500 acres, a moiety of his preemption; that beforee a conveyance was made by Reed, Mitchel) and Parks agreed that the tract should be divided between them in equal quantilies, by a line running northwardly and southardly, parallel with, and at right angles to^the lines of the original survey, and that Mitchell should have the…