Skillern's Executors v. May's Executors

8 U.S. 137

4 Cranch 137

2 L.Ed. 574

SKILLERN'S EXECUTORS

v.

MAY'S EXECUTORS.

February Term, 1807

1

ERROR to the district court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, in chancery.

2

The facts of the case, as they appear upon the record, are as follow:

3

Skillern put into the hands of Richard May several land-warrants to locate in Kentucky, under an agreement that May should have half the land for locating the whole, who accordingly located the quantity of 2,500 acres in the name of Skillern, but not to his satisfaction, and the matter was not settled between them as the time of R. May's death,…