Wickliffe v. City of Lexington

Judge Simpsom

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Town of Lexington was established by an act of the Virginia Legislature, passed in the month of May 1782. Its boundary was represented as containing seven hundred and ten acres of land, composed of six hundred and forty acres of unappropriated lands, and seventy acres contiguous thereto being part of a military survey made for John Floyd, The act establishing the town vested the title to the seven hundred and ten acres in John Todd and six other gentlemen, as Trustees, and empowered and required them to make conveyances to those persons who…