Skillern's executors v. May's executors
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the District Court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, in chancery. The facts of the case, as they appeared upon the record, are as follows: 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 2500 acres, in the name of Skillern, but not to his satisfaction, and the matter was not settled between…
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Error to the District Court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, in chancery. The facts of the case, as they appeared upon the record, are as follows: 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 2500 acres, in the name of Skillern, but not to his satisfaction, and the matter was not settled between them, at the time of Robert May’s death, when his interest in the lands so located descended to his son, John May, the…
1Opinion of the Court
This Court gave no other opinion in this case than is expressed in the following decree.
“ It is the opinion of the court, .that G. Skillern, by acquiring to himself the legal estate to 1050 acres of land, the equitable right to which he had transferred to John May, on the 6th of March 1785 (and having never conveyed or offered to convey the said lands to May, or to his legal representatives), and it appearing, that at the time of the decrees rendered in these causes, certain parts of the said entries to which Skillern had thus acquired the legal title, and which constituted a part of the…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Skillern's Executors v. May's ExecutorsSupreme Court of the United States · 1807