Owings's v. Myers

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Owsley.

Jacob Myers received from Jacob Owings, dec’d. in his lifetime, money to purchase land warrants, and having obtained the warrants in his own name gave his obligation to Owings for the conveyance of 1000 acres of land,, one half of the amount for which the warrants were obtained. After this Owings devised the land to Thomas,. Joshua and Jesse Mummy, and made Samuel Mummy the executor of his will. After the decease of Owings, his executor, in February 1786, applied to Myers in the then district of Kentucky, and obtained from him an obligation qonditioned for…