Pugh's heirs v. Bell's heirs

Judge Robertson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On the 2d of May, 1817, the defendants, as the heir of Kobert Bell, deceased, filed their bill in *399chancery, against Joseph Pugh, alleging in substahcé, that some time before 1789, (blit at what particular time does not appear,) Rankin, Pugh and Bell, (their ancestor,) purchased from Holsey 330 acres of land, in the now county of Bourbon, which Holsey had bought from Hoy, and Hoy from Miller, the patentee, and of which a division was made among them by demarcation of boundaries, assigning to Rankin 130-acres, and to Pugh and Bell 100 acres…