Lee v. Fox

In February, 1794 — during the pendency of an appeal 'in this Court, prosecuted by Edward Mills, for reversing a decree dismissing a bill filed by him against Arthur Fox, for a relinquishment of the legal title to about fifteen hundred acres of land, included within Fox’s elder, patent of 1788, for twenty seven hundred acres, and by his own junior grant, of 1790, for two thousand acres,, he insisting that his entry was superior to that of Fox — ■ they compromised the suit, and adjusted their conflicting claims by agreeing on a line, dividing between them,, in nearly equal quantities, the land…