Taylor v. Knox's Executors

Judge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Colonel Knox, as patentee, owned two tracts of land in the state of Ohio — one of two thousand, the other of seven hundred acres. He was entitled to one thousand six hundred twenty eight acres and two thirds, in land warrants, as a balance due him for bis services in the revolutionary army. He employed Taylor, the plaintiff in error, to take care of the two tracts, to pay taxes on them, and on other lands which he owned in Ohio. *392And likewise, to obtain land warrants for the- balance due him, as an officer of the Virginia continental line. He…